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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

ELI5

ELI5, or Explain Like I'm Five, is a Python XAI library for debugging, inspecting, and explaining ML classifiers. It was one of the initial XAI frameworks developed to explain black-box models in the most simplified format. It supports a wide range of ML modeling frameworks such as scikit-learn compatible models, Keras, and more. It also has integrated LIME explainers and can work with tabular datasets along with unstructured data such as text and images. The library documentation is provided at https://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, and the GitHub project is available at https://github.com/eli5-org/eli5.

In this section, we will cover the application part of ELI5 for a tabular dataset only, but please feel free to explore other examples that have been provided in the tutorial examples of ELI5 at https://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/index.html. Next, let's get started with the walk-through of the code tutorial.

Setting up ELI5

The complete tutorial...