sliceline 0.3.0

👉 Getting started

Given an input dataset X and a model error vector errors, SliceLine finds the top slices in X that identify where a ML model performs significantly worse.

You can use sliceline as follows:

from sliceline.slicefinder import Slicefinder

slice_finder = Slicefinder()

slice_finder.fit(X, errors)

print(slice_finder.top_slices_)

X_trans = slice_finder.transform(X)

We invite you to check the demo notebooks for a more thorough tutorial:

1. Implementing Sliceline on Titanic dataset

2. Implementing Sliceline on California housing dataset

🛠 Installation

Sliceline is intended to work with Python 3.10 or above. Installation can be done with pip:

pip install sliceline

There are wheels available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, which means that you most probably won’t have to build Sliceline from source.

You can install the latest development version from GitHub as so:

pip install git+https://github.com/DataDome/sliceline --upgrade

Or, through SSH:

pip install git+ssh://git@github.com/datadome/sliceline.git --upgrade

⚡ Performance Optimization

Sliceline includes optional Numba JIT compilation for 5-50x performance improvements on scoring operations.

Quick Installation:

# With optimization support
pip install sliceline[optimized]

Benefits:

• 5-6x faster scoring operations

• 1.4-4.5x faster overall fit() performance

• Up to 17% memory reduction on large datasets

• Automatic fallback to pure NumPy if Numba not available

System Requirements:

Numba requires LLVM to be installed:

# macOS
brew install llvm

# Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)
sudo apt-get install llvm

Verify Optimization:

from sliceline import is_numba_available

print("Numba available:", is_numba_available())

See the performance benchmarks for detailed metrics.

🔗 Useful links

• Documentation

• Package releases

• SliceLine paper

👐 Contributing

Feel free to contribute in any way you like, we’re always open to new ideas and approaches.

• Open a discussion if you have any question or enquiry whatsoever. It’s more useful to ask your question in public rather than sending us a private email. It’s also encouraged to open a discussion before contributing, so that everyone is aligned and unnecessary work is avoided.

• Feel welcome to open an issue if you think you’ve spotted a bug or a performance issue.

Please check out the contribution guidelines if you want to bring modifications to the code base.

📝 License

Sliceline is free and open-source software licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.