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Applied Machine Learning Explainability Techniques

By : Aditya Bhattacharya
Book Image

Applied Machine Learning Explainability Techniques

By: Aditya Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

Explainable AI (XAI) is an emerging field that brings artificial intelligence (AI) closer to non-technical end users. XAI makes machine learning (ML) models transparent and trustworthy along with promoting AI adoption for industrial and research use cases. Applied Machine Learning Explainability Techniques comes with a unique blend of industrial and academic research perspectives to help you acquire practical XAI skills. You'll begin by gaining a conceptual understanding of XAI and why it's so important in AI. Next, you'll get the practical experience needed to utilize XAI in AI/ML problem-solving processes using state-of-the-art methods and frameworks. Finally, you'll get the essential guidelines needed to take your XAI journey to the next level and bridge the existing gaps between AI and end users. By the end of this ML book, you'll be equipped with best practices in the AI/ML life cycle and will be able to implement XAI methods and approaches using Python to solve industrial problems, successfully addressing key pain points encountered.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Conceptual Exposure
5
Section 2 – Practical Problem Solving
12
Section 3 –Taking XAI to the Next Level

DALEX

In the Dimensions of explainability section of Chapter 1, Foundational Concepts of Explainability Techniques, we discussed the four different dimensions of explainability – data, model, outcome, and end user. Most explainability frameworks such as LIME, SHAP, and TCAV provide model-centric explainability.

DALEX (moDel Agnostic Language for Exploration and eXplanation) is one of the very few widely used XAI frameworks that tries to address most of the dimensions of explainability. DALEX is model-agnostic and can provide some metadata about the underlying dataset to give some context to the explanation. This framework gives you insights into the model performance and model fairness, and it also provides global and local model explainability.

The developers of the DALEX framework wanted to comply with the following list of requirements, which they have defined in order to explain complex black-box algorithms:

  • Prediction's justifications: According to...