iml

iml is an R package that interprets the behavior and explains predictions of machine learning models. It implements model-agnostic interpretability methods - meaning they can be used with any machine learning model.

Features

• Feature importance
• Partial dependence plots
• Individual conditional expectation plots (ICE)
• Accumulated local effects
• Tree surrogate
• LocalModel: Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations
• Shapley value for explaining single predictions

Read more about the methods in the Interpretable Machine Learning book.

Tutorial

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Installation

The package can be installed directly from CRAN and the development version from GitHub:

# Stable version
install.packages("iml")

# Development version
remotes::install_github("christophM/iml")

News

Changes of the packages can be accessed in the NEWS file.

Quickstart

First we train a Random Forest to predict the Boston median housing value. How does lstat influence the prediction individually and on average? (Accumulated local effects)

library("iml")
library("randomForest")
data("Boston", package = "MASS")
rf = randomForest(medv ~ ., data = Boston, ntree = 50)
X = Boston[which(names(Boston) != "medv")]
model = Predictor$new(rf, data = X, y = Boston$medv)
effect = FeatureEffects$new(model)
effect$plot(features = c("lstat", "age", "rm"))

Contribute

Please check the contribution guidelines

Citation

If you use iml in a scientific publication, please cite it as:

Molnar, Christoph, Giuseppe Casalicchio, and Bernd Bischl. "iml: An R package for interpretable machine learning." Journal of Open Source Software 3.26 (2018): 786.

BibTeX:

@article{molnar2018iml,
  title={iml: An R package for interpretable machine learning},
  author={Molnar, Christoph and Casalicchio, Giuseppe and Bischl, Bernd},
  journal={Journal of Open Source Software},
  volume={3},
  number={26},
  pages={786},
  year={2018}
}

License

© 2018 - 2020 Christoph Molnar

The contents of this repository are distributed under the MIT license. See below for details:

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Funding

This work is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts in the framework of the Centre Digitisation.Bavaria (ZD.B)