Visualization for Explainable AI
November 26th

Dennis Collaris
PhD Visualization

Machine Learning
75% risk!
Black box
model
Domain expert
But why?
Data
Trending issue



DECISION SUPPORT






Husky vs. Wolf problem
DIAGNOSTICS
CycleGAN

DIAGNOSTICS

75% risk!
Black box
model
Domain expert
Explanation
Aha!
But why?
Data
Explainer
Machine Learning
Overview
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Fraud detection explanations (ziekteverzuim)
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LEMON
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sklearn-pmml-model
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ExplainExplore (debiteurenmanagement)
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New projects
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Contribution-Value Plots
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StrategyAtlas
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Fraud detection explanations
sick-leave insurances
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS

Real world scenario
Data
- Missing/incorrect values
Model
- 100 Random Forest
- 500 trees each
- ~25 decisions per tree
- 1.312.471 decisions total!
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OOB error: 27.7%
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS





My solution
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS
Feature contribution
[1] Palczewska, Anna et. al. Interpreting random forest classification models using a feature contribution method. In Integration of reusable systems, pp. 193–218. Springer, 2014.
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\(Y_{mean}\) = 0.5
\(Y_{mean}\) = 0.75
\(LI_{X}\) = 0.25
Contribution per Decision Tree:
\(FC_{i,t}^f = \sum_{N \in R_{i,t}} LI_f^N\)
Contribution per Random Forest:
\(FC_i^f = \frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^T FC_{i,t}^f\)
X < 2.5
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS
Partial dependence
[2] Friedman, Jerome H. Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine. Annals of Statistics, 29(5): pp. 1189–1232, 2001.
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Duration illness
Fraud?
Fraud (55%)
Non-fraud (35%)
Company | ABC Inc |
Employees | 5 |
Duration illness | days |
... | ... |
Fraud (65%)
Fraud (90%)
Non-fraud (45%)
Non-fraud (40%)
Non-fraud (25%)
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS
Local rule extraction
[3] Ribeiro, Marco Tulio et. al. Why should i trust you?: Explaining the predictions of any classifier. In
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD, pp. 1135–1144. ACM, 2016.
[4] Deng, Houtao. Interpreting tree ensembles with inTrees. arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5456 , pp. 1–18, 2014.
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FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS
Any project using a Random Forest in R!
- Given a workshop for data science teams
- Code for dashboard available at team Leon
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS
Applications
Fraud team happy! 🎉
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS
FRAUD DETECTION EXPLANATIONS

Paper presented at:
Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning
Stockholm, Sweden

GENERAL EXPLAINER TECHNIQUES
Applicable to any machine learning model


LIME
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LEMON
LIME
LEMON
GENERAL EXPLAINER TECHNIQUES
GENERAL EXPLAINER TECHNIQUES
Applications
Can be used for any Python model...

sklearn-pmml-model
Can be used for any model...
DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Effectiveness of debt collection strategies

DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Problem
Surrogate learning
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Feature 1
Feature 2
Feature 3
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Feature 2
Feature 3
Feature 1
Feature 2
Feature 3
DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Help data scientists to create and tune explanatory surrogate models.

DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Configuration view

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← Any tabular data set
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← Any Python classifier, or PMML
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← Different surrogate models

DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Feature view
- ← Surrogate fidelity: R2
- ← Prediction
- ← Feature contribution
Local columns
Global columns
- Shows values or contribution →
- Line color = predicted class →
- Compare selected instance with data →
- Clusters indicate ‘strategies’ →
DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Local explanation view

DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Context view




DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Context view

Paper accepted at:
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2020
@
Tianjin, China

😢
DEBTOR MANAGEMENT
Applications
Anywhere where tabular data is used.
Any model in Python or PMML.
- Debtor management (Team Randy Soet)
- Team Data Science / Wheel of Knowledge
- More soon!
NEXT STEPS
New projects


NEXT STEPS
Topic
Global
Instance-level
19 November (meeting stuurgroep Robotisering)
By iamdecode
19 November (meeting stuurgroep Robotisering)
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