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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

Rapid XAI prototyping using EUCA

In the previous section, we discussed the key ingredients of a user-centered XAI/ML system. In this section, the importance of rapid prototyping in the ENDURANCE ideology will be emphasized. Rapid prototyping is a concept that is predominantly adopted in software engineering as software is probably the most malleable thing created by mankind. Building fast prototypes is an approach for collecting useful user feedback early in the development process of a software product. Hence, even for designing user-centered XAI/ML systems, rapid prototyping is very important.

Jin et al., in their research work EUCA: the End-User-Centered Explainable AI Framework (https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02437), introduced a toolkit called EUCA. EUCA is a very interesting framework primarily designed by UX researchers, HCI researchers and designers, AI scientists, and developers for building rapid XAI prototypes for non-technical end users. The official GitHub repository for...