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Causal Interpretations of Black-Box Models

The fields of machine learning and causal inference have developed many concepts, tools, and theory that are potentially useful for each other. Through exploring the possibility of extracting causal interpretations from black-box machine-trained models, we briefly review the languages and concepts in causal inference that may be interesting to machine learning researchers. We start with the curious observation that Friedman’s partial dependence plot has exactly the same formula as Pearl’s back-door adjustment and discuss three requirements to make causal interpretations: a model with good predictive performance, some domain knowledge in the form of a causal diagram and suitable visualization tools. We provide several illustrative examples and find some interesting and potentially causal relations using visualization tools for black-box models.

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Judul Seri

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STATISTICS; Vol.39 No.1 January 2021

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Deskripsi Fisik

p. 272 - 281

Bahasa

English

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Subjek

MACHINE LEARNING
DATA VISUALIZATION
MEDIATION ANALYSIS
BACK-DOOR ADJUSTMENT
PARTIAL DEPENDENCE PLOT

Info Detail Spesifik

https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2019.1624293

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Qingyuan Zhao, Trevor Hastie

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