Interpretable Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marius Lindauer

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Übungsbetreuung:

Background

The learning objectives include the students acquiring both the theoretical and practical basics of interpretable machine learning (iML). For this purpose, they should internalize the mathematical basics as well as be able to implement, execute and evaluate iML approaches. In a final project, the students will independently apply the learned concepts to a new problem.

Topics

Following topic are covered within the lecture:

• GAMs and Rule-based Approaches
• Feature Effects
• Local Explanations
• Shapley Values for Explainability
• Instance-wise Feature Selection
• Gradient-based Feature Attribution
• Actionable Explanation and Resources
• Evaluating Interpretability and Utility

Requirements

We strongly recommend that you know the foundations of

• AI
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning

in order to attend the course. You should have attended at least one other course for ML and DL in the past.

Literature

• Interpretable ML Book by Molnar.
• Samek, W., Montavon, G., Vedaldi, A., Hansen, L. K., & Müller, K. R. (Eds.). (2019). Explainable AI: interpreting, explaining and visualizing deep learning (Vol. 11700). Springer Nature., ISO 690.

Dynamics

This course as well as the exercises will be in English only.