Looking deeper into LIME

08/25/2020
by   Damien Garreau, et al.
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Interpretability of machine learning algorithm is a pressing need. Numerous methods appeared in recent years, but do they make sense in simple cases? In this paper, we present a thorough theoretical analysis of Tabular LIME. In particular, we show that the explanations provided by Tabular LIME are close to an explicit expression in the large sample limit. We leverage this knowledge when the function to explain has some nice algebraic structure (linear, multiplicative, or depending on a subset of the coordinates) and provide some interesting insights on the explanations provided in these cases. In particular, we show that Tabular LIME provides explanations that are proportional to the coefficients of the function to explain in the linear case, and provably discards coordinates unused by the function to explain in the general case.

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