This article heavily relys on "Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead" by Cynthia Rudin and finally on some of my personal experiences. I will mainly focus on technical issues and leave out most of the governance and ethics related issues that derive from these. Read more

You maybe know the LIME algorithm from some of my earlier blog posts. It can be quite useful to “debug” data sets and understand machine learning models better. But LIME is fooled very easily.

In the previous posts, we saw how to build strong and versatile named entity recognition systems and how to properly evaluate them. But often you want to understand your model beyond the metrics. So in this tutorial I will show you how you can build an explainable and interpretable NER system with keras and the LIME algorithm. Read more

In this post, I’m going to show you how you can use a neural network from keras with the LIME algorithm implemented in the eli5 TextExplainer class. For this we will write a scikit-learn compatible wrapper for a keras bidirectional LSTM model. The wrapper will also handle the tokenization and the storage of the vocabulary.