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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

Emphasizing IML for explainability

IML is the paradigm of designing intelligent user interfaces to facilitate ML and AI algorithms with the help of user interactions. Using IML to steer the usage of ML systems to increase the trust of the end user has been an important research topic for the AI and HCI research community over the last few years. Many works of research literature recommend using IML to increase user engagement for AI systems. Recent Research Advances on Interactive Machine Learning by Jiang et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04548) talks about some of the significant progress that has been made in the field of IML and how it is closely associated with the increasing trust and transparency of ML algorithms.

IML is another interesting approach that is used by the XAI community to explain ML models. Even in frameworks such as DALEX and Explainerdashboards, as covered in Chapter 9, Other Popular XAI Frameworks, providing interactive dashboards and web interfaces that...