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Applied Machine Learning Explainability Techniques

By : Aditya Bhattacharya
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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

InterpretML

InterpretML (https://interpret.ml/) is an XAI toolkit from Microsoft. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of ML models for the purpose of model debugging, outcome explainability, and regulatory audits of ML models. With this Python module, we can either train interpretable glassbox models or explain black-box models.

In Chapter 1, Foundational Concepts of Explainability Techniques, we discovered that some models such as decision trees, linear models, or rule-fit algorithms are inherently explainable. However, these models are not efficient for complex datasets. Usually, these models are termed glass-box models as opposed to black-box models, as they are extremely transparent.

Microsoft Research developed another algorithm called Explainable Boosting Machine (EBM), which introduces modern ML techniques such as boosting, bagging, and automatic interaction detection into classical algorithms such as Generalized Additive Models (GAMs). Researchers have...