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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

A practical example of using LIME for classification problems

So far, we have covered most of the in-depth conceptual understanding that is needed regarding the LIME algorithm. In this section, we will try to explore the LIME Python framework for explaining classification problems. The framework is available as an open source project on GitHub at https://github.com/marcotcr/lime. Installing LIME in Python can be done easily using the pip installer inside the Jupyter notebook:

!pip install lime

The complete notebook version of the tutorial is accessible from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applied-Machine-Learning-Explainability-Techniques/blob/main/Chapter04/Intro_to_LIME.ipynb. However, for now, I will try to walk you through the entire code so that you understand the code in detail. Once the LIME framework has been installed, quickly verify whether the installation was successful or not by importing the library:

import lime

If the import was...