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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

Advantages and limitations of SHAP

In the previous section, we discussed the practical application of SHAP for explaining a regression model with just a few lines of code. However, since SHAP is not the only explainability framework, we should be aware of the specific advantages and disadvantages of SHAP, too.

Advantages

The following is a list of some of the advantages of SHAP:

  • Local explainability: Since SHAP provides local explainability to inference data, it enables users to analyze key factors that are positively or negatively affecting the model's decision-making process. As SHAP provides local explainability, it is useful for production-level ML systems, too.
  • Global explainability: Global explainability provided in SHAP helps to extract key information about the model and the training data, especially from the collective feature importance plots. I think SHAP is better than LIME for getting a global perspective on the model. SP-LIME in LIME is good for...