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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

Explaining transformers using SHAP

In this chapter, so far we have seen examples of various SHAP explainers used to explain different types of models trained on structured and image datasets. Now, we will cover approaches to explain complicated models trained on text data. For text data, getting high accuracy with models trained on conventional Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods is always challenging. This is because extracting contextual information in sequential text data is always difficult using the classical approaches.

However, with the invention of the Transformer deep learning architecture (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/25/what-is-a-transformer-model/), which is based on an attention mechanism, obtaining higher accuracy models trained on text data became much easier. However, transformer models are extremely complicated and it can be really difficult to interpret the workings of such models. Fortunately, being model-agnostic, SHAP can be applied with transformer...