Machine Learning models are frequently seen as black boxes that are impossible to decipher. Because the learner is trained to respond to “yes” and “no” type questions without explaining how the answer was obtained. An explanation of how an answer was achieved is critical in many applications for assuring confidence and openness. Explainable AI refers to strategies and procedures in the use of artificial intelligence technology (AI) that allow human specialists to understand the solution’s findings. This article will focus on explaining the machine learner using OmniXAI. Following are the topics to be covered.
“Explainability” is a need and expectation that increases the transparency of the intrinsic AI model’s “decision.” Let’s take a closer look at explainable AI objectives.
The primary goal of XAI is to answer “wh” (why, when, what, how, and so on) questions about an acquired response. XAI can deliver reliability, transparency, confidence, information and fairness.
By presenting a rationale that a layperson can understand, XAI can improve transparency and fairness. The minimum need for a transparent AI model is that it be expressive enough to be intelligible by humans. Transparency is essential for evaluating the performance and rationale of the XAI model. Transparency can ensure that any erroneous training to model generates weaknesses in prediction, resulting in a large loss in person to the end-user. False training may be used to alter the generalisation of any AI/ML model, resulting in unethical gains to any party unless it is made clear.
One of the most significant aspects that cause humans to rely on any particular technology is trust. A logical and scientific rationale for every forecast or conclusion leads people to prefer AI/ML systems’ predictions or conclusions.
Because of the bias and variance trade-off in AI/ML models, XAI promotes fairness and assists in mitigating bias (bias-variance trade off) of prediction during justification or interpretation.
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Explainable AI (XAI) techniques are classified into two major categories of transparent and post-hoc methods. The post-hoc method is further divided based on the data type.
Post-hoc approaches are effective for interpreting model complexity when there is a nonlinear connection or increased data complexity. In this scenario, the post-hoc technique is a handy tool for explaining what the model has learnt when the data and features do not follow a clear connection.
The statistical and visualisation-based display of feature summaries underpins result-oriented interpretability techniques. Statistical presentation denotes statistics for each characteristic, with the relevance of each feature measured based on its weight in prediction.
A post-hoc XAI approach takes a trained and/or tested AI model as input and produces intelligible representations of the model’s inner workings and decision logic in the form of feature significance scores, rule sets, heat maps, or plain language. Many post hoc approaches attempt to reveal correlations between feature values and prediction model outputs, regardless of the model’s internals. This assists users in identifying the most relevant characteristics in an ML work, quantifying the value of features, replicating black-box model choices, and identifying biases in the model or data.
Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations, for example, extract feature importance scores by perturbing real samples, observing the change in the ML model’s output given the perturbed instances, and building a local simple model that approximates the original model’s behaviour in the neighbourhood of the original samples. Model agnostic and model-specific posthoc techniques are the two types of posthoc procedures. Explainability limitations about the learning method and internal structure of a particular deep learning model are supported by model-specific strategies. To understand the learning mechanism and give explanations, model agnostic approaches use pairwise analysis of model inputs and predictions.
It has been noted that global techniques can explain all data sets, but local approaches are confined to certain types of data sets. Model-agnostic tools, on the other hand, may be utilised with any AI/ML model. In this case, paired examination of input and results is critical for interpretability. Model-specific strategies such as feature relevance, condition-based explanations, rule-based learning, and saliency map were covered in the following sections.
Transparent methods such as logistic regression, support vector machine, Bayesian classifier, and K closest neighbour offer rationale with feature weights that are local to the user. This category includes models that meet three properties: algorithmic transparency, decomposability, and simulatability.
The transparent model is realised with the following explainable AI techniques.
OmniXAI is an open-source explainable AI package that provides omni-way explainability for a wide range of machine learning models. OmniXAI can assess feature correlations and data imbalance concerns in data analysis and exploration, assisting developers in swiftly removing duplicate features and identifying potential bias issues. OmniXAI can find essential features in feature engineering by studying connections between features and targets, assisting users in understanding data aspects, and doing feature preprocessing. OmniXAI provides multiple explanations, such as feature-attribution explanation, counterfactual explanation, and gradient-based explanation, in model training and assessment to completely examine the behaviour of a model created for tabular, vision, NLP, or time-series tasks.
This article will focus on the data analysis, feature selection and explaining the regression model with OmniXAI. For this article the data used is related to music, the top 2000 songs listed by Spotify and the problem is to predict the popularity of songs.
Let’s start by installing the OmniX AI.
The developers of omnixai recommend using Tabular to describe a tabular dataset that may be generated from a pandas dataframe or a NumPy array. To construct a Tabular instance from a pandas dataframe, the dataframe, category feature names, and target/label column names must be specified. The “omnixai.preprocessing” package contains various helpful preprocessing routines for Tabular data.
For data analysis, build an explanation called DataAnalyzer. In DataAnalyzer, the parameter explainers give the names of the analyzers we wish to use, for example, “correlation” for feature correlation analysis. In the library, data analysis is classified as a “global explanation.” Explain global is invoked with the extra parameters for the specified analyzers to create explanations.
The Omnix AI uses plotly as the plotter so all the graphs are interactive. Here we are plotting the correlation plot and some plots related to feature importance.
TabularTransform is a transform that is specifically built for tabular data. It transforms categorical features to one-hot encoding by default and retains continuous-valued features. TabularTransform’s transform method will convert a Tabular instance into a NumPy array. If the Tabular instance contains a target column, the target will be the final column of the modified NumPy array.
For this article using the Gradient Boosting Regressor model by sklearn
Explaining the outcomes of the models by initialising TabularExplainer. There are the following needs to be defined while initialising.
Once the explainer is initialised, run test instances by using these codes.
Plot the results for visualising the explainability
As observed in the LIME test five features (instrumentals, duration, energy, acoustics, and genre) are important and have a positive impact on explaining the result of the learner. Similarly in the Shap test, four features (duration, loudness, acoustics, genre, and key) have more impact on the explainability.
The foundation for explainable AI is transparent ML models, which are only partially interpretable by themselves, and post-hoc explainability approaches, which make the model more interpretable. With this article, we have understood the objective and classification of Explainable AI and implemented explainable AI with OmniXAI.
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