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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

User-centered XAI/ML systems

For most industrial problems, AI solutions are developed in isolation and users are only introduced in the final stages of the development process after a minimum viable solution is ready. With this conventional approach, it is often found that product leads or product managers tend to focus on projecting the solution from the development team's perspective to meet the goals of the users. Well, this approach is absolutely fine, and it might work really well for certain use cases that require the technical team to develop through abstraction. However, if the users are not involved in the early stages of the implementation process, it has been often found that the users are reluctant to adopt the solution. So, the ENDURANCE ideology is focused on developing solutions by involving final users right from the design phase of the solution.

The ENDURANCE ideology focuses on the principles of HCI and emphasizes the importance of distributed cognition of...