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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

Mission accomplished

The mission was to train a traffic prediction model and understand what factors create uncertainty and possibly increase costs for the construction company. We can conclude a significant portion of the potential $35,000/year in fines can be attributed to the is_holiday factor. Therefore, the construction company should rethink working holidays. There are only seven or eight holidays between March and November, and they could cost more because of the fines than working on a few Sundays instead. With this caveat, the mission was successful, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.

Of course, these conclusions are for the “LSTM_traffic_168_compact1” model – which we can compare with other models. Try replacing the model_name at the beginning of the notebook with “LSTM_traffic_168_compact2”, an equally small but significantly more robust model, or “LSTM_traffic_168_optimal”, a larger slightly better performing...