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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 SHAP to explain regression models

In the previous section, we learned about different visualizations and explainers in SHAP for explaining ML models. Now, I will give you practical exposure to using SHAP for providing model explainability. The framework is available as an open source project on GitHub: https://github.com/slundberg/shap. You can get the API documentation at https://shap-lrjball.readthedocs.io/en/docs_update/index.html. The complete tutorial is provided in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applied-Machine-Learning-Explainability-Techniques/blob/main/Chapter06/Intro_to_SHAP.ipynb. I strongly recommend that you read this section and execute the code side by side.

Setting up SHAP

Installing SHAP in Python can be done easily using the pip installer by using the following command in your console:

pip install shap

Since the tutorial requires you to have other Python frameworks installed, you can also try the following command to...