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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

Using LIME on tabular data

In the Practical example of using LIME for classification problems section of Chapter 4, LIME for Model Interpretability, we discussed how to set up LIME in Python and how to use LIME to explain classification ML models. The dataset used for the tutorial in Chapter 4, LIME for Model Interpretability (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applied-Machine-Learning-Explainability-Techniques/blob/main/Chapter04/Intro_to_LIME.ipynb) was a tabular structured data. In this section, we will discuss using LIME to explain regression models that are built on tabular data.

Setting up LIME

Before starting the code walk-through, I would ask you to check the following notebook, https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applied-Machine-Learning-Explainability-Techniques/blob/main/Chapter05/LIME_with_tabular_data.ipynb, which already contains the steps needed to understand the concept that we are going to discuss now in more depth. I assume that most of the Python libraries that...