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Platform and Model Design for Responsible AI

By : Amita Kapoor, Sharmistha Chatterjee
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Platform and Model Design for Responsible AI

By: Amita Kapoor, Sharmistha Chatterjee

Overview of this book

AI algorithms are ubiquitous and used for tasks, from recruiting to deciding who will get a loan. With such widespread use of AI in the decision-making process, it’s necessary to build an explainable, responsible, transparent, and trustworthy AI-enabled system. With Platform and Model Design for Responsible AI, you’ll be able to make existing black box models transparent. You’ll be able to identify and eliminate bias in your models, deal with uncertainty arising from both data and model limitations, and provide a responsible AI solution. You’ll start by designing ethical models for traditional and deep learning ML models, as well as deploying them in a sustainable production setup. After that, you’ll learn how to set up data pipelines, validate datasets, and set up component microservices in a secure and private way in any cloud-agnostic framework. You’ll then build a fair and private ML model with proper constraints, tune the hyperparameters, and evaluate the model metrics. By the end of this book, you’ll know the best practices to comply with data privacy and ethics laws, in addition to the techniques needed for data anonymization. You’ll be able to develop models with explainability, store them in feature stores, and handle uncertainty in model predictions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Risk Assessment Machine Learning Frameworks in a Global Landscape
5
Part 2: Building Blocks and Patterns for a Next-Generation AI Ecosystem
9
Part 3: Design Patterns for Model Optimization and Life Cycle Management
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Part 4: Implementing an Organization Strategy, Best Practices, and Use Cases

DoWhy for causal inference

DoWhy is a Python library for causal inference and analysis. It is designed to support interoperability with other causal estimation libraries, such as Causal ML and EconML, allowing users to easily combine different methods and approaches in their analysis.

One of the main features of DoWhy is its focus on robustness checks and sensitivity analysis. The library includes a range of methods for evaluating the robustness of causal estimates, such as bootstrapping and placebo tests. These methods help users to ensure that their estimates are reliable and not subject to bias or confounding factors.

In addition to robustness checks, DoWhy also offers an API that follows the common steps involved in causal analysis. These steps include creating a causal model, identifying the effect of interest, estimating the effect using statistical estimators, and validating the estimate through sensitivity analysis and robustness checks.

To create a causal model, users...