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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

Explainerdashboard

The AI research community has always considered interactive visualization to be an important approach for interpreting ML model predictions. In this section, we will cover Explainerdashboard, which is an interesting Python framework that can spin up a comprehensive interactive dashboard covering various aspects of model explainability with just minimal lines of code. Although this framework supports only scikit-learn-compatible models (including XGBoost, CatBoost, and LightGBM), it can provide model-agnostic global and local explainability. Currently, it supports SHAP-based feature importance and interactions, PDPs, model performance analysis, what-if model analysis, and even decision-tree-based breakdown analysis plots.

The framework allows customization of the dashboard, but I think the default version includes all supported aspects of model explainability. The generated web-app-based dashboards can be exported as static web pages directly from a live dashboard...