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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

Understanding limitations of traditional model interpretation methods

In a nutshell, traditional interpretation methods only cover high-level questions about your models such as the following:

  • In aggregate, do they perform well?
  • What changes in hyperparameters may impact predictive performance?
  • What latent patterns can you find between the features and their predictive performance?

These questions are very limiting if you are trying to understand not only whether your model works but why and how?

This gap in understanding can lead to unexpected issues with your model that won’t necessarily be immediately apparent. Let’s consider that models, once deployed, are not static but dynamic. They face different challenges than they did in the “lab” when you were training them. They may face not only performance issues but issues with bias, such as imbalance with underrepresented classes, or security vulnerabilities with adversarial...