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Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Producing Explainable AI (XAI) and Interpretable Machine Learning Solutions

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Overview

Learn best practices for how to produce explainable AI and interpretable machine learning solutions.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Exploring the world of explainable AI and interpretable machine learning
  • Target audience
  • What you should know
1. What Are XAI and IML?
  • Understanding the what and why your models predict
  • Variable importance and reason codes
  • Comparing IML and XAI
  • Trends in AI making the XAI problem more prominent
  • Local and global explanations
  • XAI for debugging models
  • KNIME support of global and local explanations
2. Why Isolating a Variable’s Contribution Is Difficult
  • Challenges of variable attribution with linear regression
  • Challenges of variable attribution with neural networks
  • Rashomon effect
3. Black Box Model 101
  • What qualifies as a black box?
  • Why do we have black box models?
  • What is the accuracy interpretability tradeoff?
  • The argument against XAI
4. Introduction to KNIME for XAI and IML
  • Introducing KNIME
  • Building models in KNIME
  • Understanding looping in KNIME
  • Where to find available KNIME support for XAI
5. XAI Techniques: Global Explanations
  • Providing global explanations with partial dependence plots
  • Using surrogate models for global explanations
  • Developing and interpreting a surrogate model with KNIME
  • Permutation feature importance
  • Global feature importance demo
6. Techniques for Local Explanations
  • Developing an intuition for Shapley values
  • Introducing SHAP
  • Using LIME to provide local explanations for neural networks
  • What are counterfactuals?
  • KNIME's Local Explanation View node
  • XAI View node demonstrating KNIME
7. IML Techniques
  • General advice for better IML
  • Why feature engineering is critical for IML
  • CORELS and recent trends
Conclusion
  • Continuing to explore XAI

Taught by

Keith McCormick

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