Is Interpreting ML Models a Dead-End?

The interpretation process can be detached from the model architecture

Is Interpreting ML Models a Dead-End? (Image by author)

Models are nowadays our primary tool to understand phenomena around us, from the movement of the stars to the opinion and the behavior of social groups. With the explosion of machine learning (ML) theory and its technology, we have been equipped with the most powerful tool in the history of science to understand a phenomenon and predict its outcome under given …

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