Summary of Beyond Treeshap: Efficient Computation Of Any-order Shapley Interactions For Tree Ensembles, by Maximilian Muschalik et al.
Beyond TreeSHAP: Efficient Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Tree Ensembles
by Maximilian Muschalik, Fabian Fumagalli, Barbara Hammer, Eyke Hüllermeier
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper presents a novel method for explaining predictions made by gradient-boosted trees, a type of ensemble model commonly used in machine learning tasks involving tabular data. The approach, called TreeSHAP-IQ, builds upon the Shapley value concept and can compute additive feature interactions of any order. This is achieved through an efficient mathematical framework that leverages polynomial arithmetic to calculate interaction scores during a single traversal of the tree. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their method on state-of-the-art tree ensembles and benchmark datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Tree-based models are powerful tools for analyzing data, but they can be hard to understand because they’re like black boxes. Scientists have found ways to make them more transparent by showing how each piece of information contributes to a prediction. But as the models get bigger and better, these explanations become harder to compute. The researchers developed a new way called TreeSHAP-IQ that makes it possible to see not just how individual pieces of data affect predictions, but also how they work together in complex ways. This can help us understand why certain predictions are made and make the models more reliable. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Ensemble model * Machine learning
