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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

Chapter 4: LIME for Model Interpretability

In the previous chapters, we discussed the various technical concepts of Explainable AI (XAI) that are needed to build trustworthy AI systems. Additionally, we looked at certain practical examples and demonstrations using various Python frameworks to implement the concepts of practical problem solving, which are given in the GitHub code repository of this chapter. XAI has been an important research topic for quite some time, but it is only very recently that all organizations have started to adopt XAI as a part of the solution life cycle for solving business problems using AI. One such popular approach is Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), which has been widely adopted to provide model-agnostic local explainability. The LIME Python library is a robust framework that provides human-friendly explanations to tabular, text, and image data and helps in interpreting black-box supervised machine learning algorithms.

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