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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

Monitoring and anticipating drifts

In the previous section, we understood how a thorough data analysis and data profiling approach can help us to identify data issues related to volume, consistency, and purity. Usually, during the initial data exploration process, most data scientists try to inspect issues in the dataset in terms of volume and purity and perform necessary preprocessing and feature engineering steps to handle these issues.

But the detection of data consistency for real-time systems and production systems is a challenging problem for almost all ML systems. Additionally, issues relating to data consistency are often overlooked and are quite unpredictable as they can happen at any point in time in production systems. Some of the cases where data consistency issues can occur are listed as follows:

  • They can occur due to natural reasons such as changes in external environmental conditions or due to the natural wear and tear of sensors or systems capturing the...