Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving From Mythos to Diagnostics
This work tackles the problem of aligning IML research with practical applications for consumers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing foundations.
The paper addresses the gap between interpretable machine learning (IML) methods and consumer use cases by synthesizing foundational work into an actionable taxonomy, which helps conceptualize this disconnect and proposes a three-step workflow to improve collaboration between researchers and consumers.
Despite increasing interest in the field of Interpretable Machine Learning (IML), a significant gap persists between the technical objectives targeted by researchers' methods and the high-level goals of consumers' use cases. In this work, we synthesize foundational work on IML methods and evaluation into an actionable taxonomy. This taxonomy serves as a tool to conceptualize the gap between researchers and consumers, illustrated by the lack of connections between its methods and use cases components. It also provides the foundation from which we describe a three-step workflow to better enable researchers and consumers to work together to discover what types of methods are useful for what use cases. Eventually, by building on the results generated from this workflow, a more complete version of the taxonomy will increasingly allow consumers to find relevant methods for their target use cases and researchers to identify applicable use cases for their proposed methods.