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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

Result visualization methods

Visualization of the model outcomes is a very common approach applied to interpret ML models. Generally, these are model-agnostic, post-hoc analysis methods applied on trained black-box models and provide explainability. In the following section, we will discuss some of the commonly used result visualization methods for explaining ML models.

Using comparison analysis

These are mostly post-hoc analysis methods that are used to add model explainability by visualizing the model's predicted output after the training process. Mostly, these are model-agnostic approaches that can be applied to both intrinsically interpretable models and black-box models. Comparison analysis can be used to produce both global and local explanations. It is mainly used to compare different possibilities of outcomes using various visualization methods.

For example, for classification-based problems, certain methods such as t-SNE and PCA are used to visualize and compare...