XAISuite 1.0.5

XAISuite: Training and Explanation Generation Utilities for Machine Learning Models

XAISuite: Training and Explaining Machine Learning Models

Welcome to our source page. Our mission is to make machine learning available to all! Whether you are a data scientist, researcher, or just a person curious about how you can use artificial intelligence to your advantage, XAISuite is the library for you. Please be sure to contribute and contact us if you have any questions.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Getting Started
4. How to Contribute
5. Technical Report and Citing XAISuite

Introduction

XAISuite (Explanatory Artificial Intelligence Suite) is a library for convenient training and explaining machine learning models for tabular datasets in Python (Note the emphasis on the word convenient). It provides a unified interface for training and explaining any machine learning model using at most just a line of code. It allows users to easily compare the results of different explainers. It is based on the XAISuite framework, which we propose in our paper.

What are explanations? Machine learning models are opaque models, so we have no idea what's going on inside of them. Explainers help us understand machine learning models we have trained and therefore give us aa better idea of why machine learning models fail in particular instances.

XAISuite accomplishes machine learning model training and explanation generation in three steps: (1) data loading, (2) model training and explanation generation, and (3) explanation comparison. Each of these steps are delved into more detail in our documentation and in the demo tutorials. A detailed flowchart is presented in our paper.

A key part of XAISuite is flexibility, and, in our mission to make machine learning available to all, we have made or plan to make XAISuite available in the following formats:

1. As a Python Library
2. On the Command Line (with XAISuiteCLI)
3. In block-code (Pending)
4. In the XAI Programming Language (Pending)

As far as we know, XAISuite is among the first comprehensive libraries that allow users to both train and explain models, and the first to provide utilities for explanation comparison. XAISuite was created with a focus on users, and our interface reflects that.

We also pioneered the ability to interact with machine learning models on the command line.

Installation

You can install the XAI Suite through PyPI:

pip install XAISuite

This will automatically install the latest version and is the reccomended way to download the library. The version on Github may not be stable. If yu already have XAISuite and want to upgrade it, do:

pip install XAISuite --upgrade Follow the instructions in individual folder READMEs for use instructions.

Getting Started

For example code and an introduction to the library, see the Demo Folder. The Demo folder is never fully complete and we will add more and more tutorials as the project progresses.

If you are looking for a model or dataset to use, sklearn has several cool options.

Examples of graphs and tables generated by the XAISuite Library can be found here.

How to Contribute

We welcome the contribution from the open-source community to improve the library!

To add a new functionality into the library or point out a flaw, please create a new issue on Github. We'll try to look into your requests as soon as we can. Keep in mind that, as this is an open-source project, you release any copyright protection over code you may contribute to the XAISuite Project.

Technical Report and Citing XAISuite

A paper proposing and using XAISuite to compare explanatory methods is still in pre-publication. Use the following BibTex to cite XAISuite for now:

@article{mitra2022-xaisuite,
  author    = {Shreyan Mitra and Leilani Gilpin},
  title     = {The XAISuite Framework and Implications on Explanatory System Dissonance},
  year      = {2022},
  doi       = {},
  url       = {},
  archivePrefix = {},
  eprint    = {},
}

The paper uses XAISuite to compare SHAP and LIME explanations for different machine learning models.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [e-mail]

License

This work is licensed under a BSD 3-Clause License.