Interpretable Machine Learning with Python

Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of your models and better mitigate poor prediction risks associated with machine learning interpretation? If so, then Interpretable Machine Learning with Python deserves a place on your bookshelf.

We’ll be starting off with the fundamentals of interpretability, its relevance in business, and exploring its key aspects and challenges.
As you progress through the chapters, you'll then focus on how white-box models work, compare them to black-box and glass-box models, and examine their trade-off. You’ll also get you up to speed with a vast array of interpretation methods, also known as Explainable AI (XAI) methods, and how to apply them to different use cases, be it for classification or regression, for tabular, time-series, image or text.
In addition to the step-by-step code, this book will also help you interpret model outcomes using examples. You’ll get hands-on with tuning models and training data for interpretability by reducing complexity, mitigating bias, placing guardrails, and enhancing reliability. The methods you’ll explore here range from state-of-the-art feature selection and dataset debiasing methods to monotonic constraints and adversarial retraining.
By the end of this book, you'll be able to understand ML models better and enhance them through interpretability tuning.

Type
ebook
Category
Data
publication date
2021-03-26
what you will learn

Recognize the importance of interpretability in business
Study models that are intrinsically interpretable such as linear models, decision trees, and Naïve Bayes
Become well-versed in interpreting models with model-agnostic methods
Visualize how an image classifier works and what it learns
Understand how to mitigate the influence of bias in datasets
Discover how to make models more reliable with adversarial robustness
Use monotonic constraints to make fairer and safer models

no of pages
736
duration
1472
key features
Learn how to extract easy-to-understand insights from any machine learning model * Become well-versed with interpretability techniques to build fairer, safer, and more reliable models * Mitigate risks in AI systems before they have broader implications by learning how to debug black-box models
approach
Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you will begin exploring the importance of interpretability in machine learning and applying methods to interpret models. You will also learn to implement modern techniques to build black-box models that overcome interpretability challenges.
audience
This book is primarily written for data scientists, machine learning developers, and data stewards who find themselves under increasing pressures to explain the workings of AI systems, their impacts on decision making, and how they identify and manage bias. It’s also a useful resource for self-taught ML enthusiasts and beginners who want to go deeper into the subject matter, though a solid grasp on the Python programming language and ML fundamentals is needed to follow along.
meta description
A deep and detailed dive into the key aspects and challenges of machine learning interpretability, complete with the know-how on how to overcome and leverage them to build fairer, safer, and more reliable models
short description
This hands-on book will help you make your machine learning models fairer, safer, and more reliable and in turn improve business outcomes. Every chapter introduces a new mission where you learn how to apply interpretation methods to realistic use cases with methods that work for any model type as well as methods specific for deep neural networks.
subtitle
Learn to build interpretable high-performance models with hands-on real-world examples
keywords
hands-on machine learning; machine learning python; ai/ml; machine learning book; hands on machine learning; ai and machine learning; ml with python
Product ISBN
9781800203907