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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python - Second Edition

By : Serg Masís
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Interpretable Machine Learning with Python - Second Edition

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By: Serg Masís

Overview of this book

Interpretable Machine Learning with Python, Second Edition, brings to light the key concepts of interpreting machine learning models by analyzing real-world data, providing you with a wide range of skills and tools to decipher the results of even the most complex models. Build your interpretability toolkit with several use cases, from flight delay prediction to waste classification to COMPAS risk assessment scores. This book is full of useful techniques, introducing them to the right use case. Learn traditional methods, such as feature importance and partial dependence plots to integrated gradients for NLP interpretations and gradient-based attribution methods, such as saliency maps. In addition to the step-by-step code, you’ll get hands-on with tuning models and training data for interpretability by reducing complexity, mitigating bias, placing guardrails, and enhancing reliability. By the end of the book, you’ll be confident in tackling interpretability challenges with black-box models using tabular, language, image, and time series data.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

The approach

Upon careful consideration, you have decided to approach this both as a regression problem and a classification problem. Therefore, you will produce models that predict minutes delayed as well as models that classify whether flights were delayed by more than 15 minutes. For interpretation, using both will enable you to use a wider variety of methods and expand your interpretation accordingly. So we will approach this example by taking the following steps:

  1. Predicting minutes delayed with various regression methods
  2. Classifying flights as delayed or not delayed with various classification methods

These steps in the Reviewing traditional model interpretation methods section are followed by conclusions spread out in the rest of the sections of this chapter.