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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the various model explainability methods used to explain black-box models. Some of these are model-agnostic, while some are model specific. Some of these methods provide global interpretability, while some of them provide local interpretability. For most of these methods, visualizations through plots, graphs, and transformation maps are used to qualitatively inspect the data or the model outcomes; while for some of the methods, certain examples are used to provide explanations. Statistics and numerical metrics can also play an important role in providing quantitative explanations.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the very important concept of data-centric XAI and gain a conceptual understanding of how data-centric approaches can be leveraged in model explainability.