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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

Knowledge extraction methods

Whenever we talk about explainability in any context, it is all about gaining knowledge of the problem so as to gain some clarity about the expected outcome. Similarly, if we already know the outcome, explainability is all about tracing back to the root cause. Knowledge extraction methods in ML are used to extract key insights from the input data or utilize the model outcome to trace back and map to certain information known to the end users for both structured data and unstructured data. Although there are multiple approaches to extracting knowledge, in practice, the data-centric process of EDA is one of the most common and popular methods for explaining any black-box model. Let's discuss more on how to use the EDA process in the context of XAI.

EDA

I would always argue that EDA is the most important process for any ML workflow. EDA allows us to explore the data and draw key insights; using this, we can form certain hypotheses from the data...