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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

Guidelines for designing explainable ML systems

In this section, we will discuss the recommended guidelines for designing an explainable ML system from an industry perspective while considering the open challenges of XAI, as discussed in the previous section. All of these guidelines have been carefully collated from various publications, conference keynotes, and panel discussions from various experts in the field of XAI, ML, and software systems. It is true that every ML and AI problem is unique in its own way, and so, it is hard to generalize any recommendations. But many AI organizations have adopted the following list of guidelines for designing explainable and user-friendly ML systems:

  • Identify the target audience of XAI and their usability context: The definition of explainability depends on the user using the AI system. Arrieta et al., in their work Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, Taxonomies, Opportunities, and Challenges toward Responsible AI, have...