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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

This brings us to the end of the chapter. In this chapter, we discussed LIME, one of the most widely adopted frameworks in XAI. Throughout this chapter, we discussed the intuition behind the workings of the algorithm and some important properties of the algorithm that make the generated explanations human-friendly. Additionally, we saw an end-to-end tutorial on how to use LIME for a practical use case to provide explainability to a black-box classification model. Even though we discussed some limitations of the LIME algorithm, due to its simplicity, LIME is still one of the most popular and widely used XAI frameworks. Hence, it is very important for us to discuss this algorithm and have a thorough understanding of the workings of the framework.

In the next chapter, we will apply the LIME framework to solve other types of machine learning problems using different types of datasets.