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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

Summary

Now, let's try to summarize what you have learned in this chapter. In this chapter, we focused on data-centric approaches for XAI. We learned the importance of explaining black-box models with respect to the underlying data, as data is the central part of any ML model. The concept of data-centric XAI might be new to many of you, but it is an important area of research for the entire AI community. Data-centric XAI can provide explainability to the black-box model in terms of data volume, data consistency, and data purity.

Data-centric explainability methods are still active research topics, and there is no single Python framework that exists that covers all of the various aspects of data-centric XAI. Please explore the supplementary Jupyter notebook tutorials provided at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applied-Machine-Learning-Explainability-Techniques/tree/main/Chapter03 to gain more practical knowledge on this topic.

We learned about the idea of thorough data...