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Estimation and Interpretation of Machine Learning Models with Customized Surrogate Model
Electronics (Switzerland)
  • Mudabbir Ali, COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Zayed University
  • Zain Ali, HITEC University
  • Bashir Hayat, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar
  • Muhammad Idrees, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
  • Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland
  • Kashif Rizwan, Federal Urdu University of Arts
  • Tae Eung Sung, Yonsei University Mirae Campus
  • Ki Il Kim, Chungnam National University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Abstract

Machine learning has the potential to predict unseen data and thus improve the productivity and processes of daily life activities. Notwithstanding its adaptiveness, several sensitive applications based on such technology cannot compromise our trust in them; thus, highly accurate machine learning models require reason. Such models are black boxes for end-users. Therefore, the concept of interpretability plays the role if assisting users in a couple of ways. Interpretable models are models that possess the quality of explaining predictions. Different strategies have been proposed for the aforementioned concept but some of these require an excessive amount of effort, lack generalization, are not agnostic and are computationally expensive. Thus, in this work, we propose a strategy that can tackle the aforementioned issues. A surrogate model assisted us in building interpretable models. Moreover, it helped us achieve results with accuracy close to that of the black box model but with less processing time. Thus, the proposed technique is computationally cheaper than traditional methods. The significance of such a novel technique is that data science developers will not have to perform strenuous hands-on activities to undertake feature engineering tasks and end-users will have the graphical-based explanation of complex models in a comprehensive way—consequently building trust in a machine.

Publisher
MDPI AG
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Data science,
  • Interpretable model,
  • Machine learning,
  • Signal processing,
  • Supervised learning,
  • Surrogate models
Scopus ID

85120685537

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Mudabbir Ali, Asad Masood Khattak, Zain Ali, Bashir Hayat, et al.. "Estimation and Interpretation of Machine Learning Models with Customized Surrogate Model" Electronics (Switzerland) Vol. 10 Iss. 23 (2021) ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2079-9292" target="_blank">2079-9292</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asad-khattak/104/