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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

Adopting a data-first approach for explainability

In Chapter 3, Data-Centric Approaches, we discussed the importance and various techniques of Data-Centric XAI. Now, in this section, we will elaborate on how adopting a data-first approach for explainability helps in gaining users' trust in industrial use cases.

Data-centric AI is based on the fundamental idea that the quality of the ML model is as good as the quality of the underlying dataset used for training the model. For industrial use cases, dealing with poor-quality datasets is a major challenge for most data scientists. Unfortunately, data quality is often ignored as data scientists and ML experts are expected to cast their magic of ML to build models that are close to 100% accurate. Consequently, ML experts simply try to follow model-centric approaches such as tuning hyperparameters or using complex algorithms to boost model performance. Even if the model performance increases slightly, with the increase in complexity...