RuleMatrix: Visualizing and Understanding Classifiers with Rules

The user uses the control panel (A) to specify the detail information to visualize (e.g., level of detail, rule filters). The rule-based explanatory representation is visualized as a matrix (B), where each row represents a rule, and each column is a feature used in the rules. The user can also filter the data or use a customized input in the data filter (C) and navigate the filtered dataset in the data table (D). Abstract--With the growing adoption of machine learning techniques, there is a surge of research interest towards making machine learning systems more transparent and interpretable. Various visualizations have been developed to help model developers understand, diagnose, and refine machine learning models. However, a large number of potential but neglected users are the domain experts with little knowledge of machine learning but are expected to work with machine learning systems. In this paper, we present an interactive visualization technique to help users with little ...