\subtitle{Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier}
\author{Casper Vestergaard Kristensen \and Alexander Munch-Hansen}
\institute{Aarhus University}
\date{\today}
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\section{Meta information}
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\item Marco Tulio Ribeiro
\item Sameer Singh
\item Carlos Guestrin
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\item Conference Paper, Research
\item KDD '16 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
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\item A premier interdisciplinary conference, brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.
\item Sigkdd has the highest h5 index of any conference involving databases or data in general
\item Highly trusted source
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\item People often use Machine Learning models for predictions
\item Blindly trusting a prediction can lead to poor decision making
\item We seek to understand the reasons behind predictions
\item Explains the predictions of \emph{any} classifier or regressor in a faithful way, by approximating it locally with an \emph{interpretable} model.
% Note: g acts in d' while f acts in d, so when we say that we have z' in dimension d', it's the model g, we can recover the z in the original representation i.e. explained by f in dimension d.
\frametitle{Sampling for Local Exploration}
Goal: Minimizing $\mathcal{L}(f,g,\pi_x)$ without making assumptions on $f$
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\item For a sample $x$, we need to draw samples around $x$
\item Accomplished by drawing non-zero elements of $x$, resulting in perturbed samples $z^\prime$
\item Given $z^\prime\in\{0,1\}^{d^\prime}$, we compute un-pertubed $z \in R^d$, $f(z)$, so we have a label for $z^\prime$.
Idea: We give a global understanding of the model by explaining a set of individual instances
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\item Still model agnositc (since the indiviudal explanations are)
\item Instances need to be selected in a clever way
\item Some definitions
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\item Time/patience of humans is explained by a budget \emph{B} which denotes number of explanations a human will sit through.
\item Given a set of instances \textbf{X}, we define the \emph{pick step} as the task of selecting \emph{B} instances for the user to inspect.
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The task of selecting \emph{B} instances for the user to inspect
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\item Not dependent on the existence of explanations
\item So it should not assist users in selecting instances themselves
\item Looking at raw data is not enough to understand predicitions and get insights
\item Should take into account the explanations that accompany each prediction
\item Should pick a diverse, representative set of explanations to show the user, so non-redundant explanations that represent how the model behaves globally.
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% This is a matrix explaining instances and their features explained by a binary list s.t. an instance either has a feature or does not. The blue line explains the most inherent feature, which is important, as it is found in omst of the instances. The red lines indicate the two samples which are most important in explaining the model. Thus, explaining importance, is done by: I_j = sqrt(sum_i=1^n W_ij)
\item Use two datasets, \emph{books} and \emph{DVDs}, both of $2000$ instances.
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\item Task is to classify reviews as \emph{positive} or \emph{negative}
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\item Decision Trees (\textbf{DT}), Logistic Regression (\textbf{LR}), Nearest Neighbours (\textbf{NN}), and SVMs with RBF kernel (\textbf{SVM}), all used BoW as features, are trained.
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% Note, random forest will make no sense without any explanation system, such as LIME
\item Also train random forest (\textbf{RF}) with $1000$ trees.
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\item Each dataset used for training will consist of $1600$ instances and $400$ will be used for testing.
\item Explanations of \textbf{LIME} is compared with \textbf{parzen}
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\item\textbf{parzen} approximates black box classifier globally and explains individual predictions by taking the gradient of the prediction probability function.
\item Both are also compared to a greedy method where features are picked by removing most contributing ones until prediction change, as well as a random procedure.
% K explains the amount of words in the BoW model and the complexity of the model. Higher K => More complex but more faithful, lower k => Less complex, potentially less faithful
\frametitle{Can users select the best classifier?}
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\item Faithfulness of explanations is measured on classifiers that are interpretable, \textbf{LR} and \textbf{DT}. Both are trained s.t. the max no. of features is $10$, so features found by these are the \emph{gold standard} of features, in regards to which are important.
\item For each prediction on the test set, explanations are produced and the fraction of the gold features found, is computed.
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\frametitle{Can non-experts improve a classifier?}