Keep Calm and Trust your Model - On Explainability of Machine Learning Models

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##About AnthillInside:
In 2016, The Fifth Elephant branched into a separate conference on Deep Learning. Anthill Inside is the new avataar of the Deep Learning conference.
Anthill Inside attempts to bridge the gap bringing theoretical advances closer to functioning reality.
Proposals are invited for full length talks, crisp talks and poster/demo sessions in the area of ML+DL. The talks need to focus on the techniques used, and may be presented independent of the domain wherein they are applied.
We also invite talks on novel applications of ML+DL, and methods of realising the same in hardware/software.
Case studies of how DL and ML have been applied in different domains will continue to be discussed at The Fifth Elephant.

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Topics: we are looking for talks covering the following:

Machine Learning with end-to-end application
Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Hardware / software implementations of advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning
IoT and Deep Learning
Operations research and Machine Learning

##Format:
Anthill Inside is a two-track conference:

Talks in the main auditorium and hall 2.
Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions in expo area.

We are inviting proposals for:

Full-length 40-minute talks.
Crisp 15-minute how-to talks or introduction to a new technology.
Sponsored sessions, of 15 minutes and 40 minutes duration (limited slots available; subject to editorial scrutiny and approval).
Hands-on workshop sessions of 3 and 6 hour duration where participants follow instructors on their laptops.
Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions.

You must submit the following details along with your proposal, or within 10 days of submission:

Draft slides, mind map or a textual description detailing the structure and content of your talk.
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If you submit a workshop proposal, you must specify the target audience for your workshop; duration; number of participants you can accommodate; pre-requisites for the workshop; link to GitHub repositories and documents showing the full workshop plan.

##Selection Process:

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##Travel Grants:

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##Important Dates:

Deadline for submitting proposals: July 10
First draft of the coference schedule: July 15
Tutorial and workshop announcements: June 30
Final conference schedule: July 20
Conference date: July 30

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Keep Calm and Trust your Model - On Explainability of Machine Learning Models

Submitted Jul 10, 2017

Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

The accuracy of Machine Learning models is going up by the day with advances in Deep Learning. But this comes at a cost of explainability of these models. There is a need to uncover these black boxes for the Business users. This is very essential especially for heavily regulated industries like Finance, Medicine, Defence and the likes

A lot of research is going on to make ML models interpretable and explainable. In this talk we will be going through the various approaches taken to unravel machine learning models and explain the reason behind their predictions.

We’ll see the different approaches being taken by discussing the latest research literature, the ‘behind the scenes’ view of what is happening inside these approaches with enough mathematical depth and intuition.

Finally, the aim is to leave the audience with the practical know-how on how to use these approaches in understanding deep learning and classical machine learning models using open source tools in Python by doing a live demo. Link to IPython notebooks

Outline

Motivation + Intro on Explainability (5 mins)

The need for explainability
Why are certain models not explainable?
Linear, monotonic vs Non-linear, non-monotonic functions

Model Specific approaches to Explainability (15 mins)

Special model specific methods, deep dive into a few of them :

Tree Interpreter for explaining Tree based models like Random Forest and Gradient Boosted Trees
Model Specific Visualisations
Attention mechanism used to explain predictions
Generating explanations as a part of the model itself (cutting edge deep learning models from MIT and Berkeley that give an explanation as additional output along with the predicted class/value)

Model Agnostic approaches to Explainability (10 mins)

Global scoped Surrogate models, statistical interpretation tools like Variable Importance, Residual plot etc
Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations : recent research which works on any black box model
Layerwise Relevance Propagation for understanding Deep Learning
- for CNNs
- for RNNs (the source code for this was released just 15 days back! We’ll be doing a live demo of this method)

Live Demo of the above approaches and Conclusion (10 mins)

Use open source tools in Python and learn how to make use of them to explain machine learning model predictions
Conclusion with practical demonstrations and call to action to try out the tools

Requirements

Basic understanding of Deep Learning and classical Machine Learning algorithms.

Speaker bio

Currently working as a as Machine Learning Engineer at datalog.ai, working remotely from Kochi, I’m entirely self-taught in the field, and originally did Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from CUSAT.
I have completed consulting projects in ML and AI with multiple startups and companies.

Previously I was a Technology Innovation Fellow with Kerala Startup Mission where I started a non-profit student community TinkerHub, that has a focus on creating community spaces across colleges for learning the latest technologies.

My work on CNNs was the winning solution for IBM’s Cognitive Cup challenge in 2016 and gave a talk on the same at the Super Computing conference SC16 at Salt Lake City, Utah : Slides

Explainability and Interpretability of ML is one of my focus areas, after having interacted with many Business owners asking for the reasons behind the working of the prediction models built for them.