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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 the current landscape of ML interpretability

First, we will provide some context on how the book relates to the main goals of ML interpretability and how practitioners can start applying the methods to achieve those broad goals. Then, we'll discuss what the current areas of growth in research are.

Tying everything together!

As discussed in Chapter 1, Interpretation, Interpretability, and Explainability; and Why Does It All Matter?, there are three main themes when talking about ML interpretability: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT), and each of these presents a series of concerns (see Figure 14.1). I think we can all agree these are all desirable properties for a model! Indeed, these concerns all present opportunities for the improvement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. These improvements start by leveraging model interpretation methods to evaluate models, confirm or dispute assumptions, and find problems.

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