Prediction Explanation: Adding Transparency to Machine Learning - DZone AI

The effective use and adoption of machine learning requires algorithms that are not only accurate but also understandable. To address this need, BigML now includes functionality that allows for prediction explanation, model-independent explanations of classification, and regression predictions. In this post, we will summarize what it means for a prediction to be explainable, why this is important, and share a use case in which prediction explanation plays a key role. Rather than being hard-programmed with an exhaustive set of "if-then" rules, machine learning algorithms "learn" rules based on large datasets of examples. Understanding what these rules are and how they are applied to new data is generally referred to as the interpretability or explanation of the model.