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Feature Importance in Explainable AI for Expounding Black Box Models

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In recent years, research on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has risen as an answer to the demand for more openness and confidence in artificial intelligence (AI). This is particularly essential since AI is utilized in sensitive fields with social, ethical and security consequences. The focus of XAI’s work is largely on the categorization, decision or action of machine learning (ML) with already thorough systemic evaluations. In this paper, we try to have a comprehensive study of the different types of XAI. We evaluate the feature importance by analyzing three different popular algorithms on a medical dataset. Finally, the future challenges concerning XAI are discussed.

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Bhuyan, B.P., Srivastava, S. (2023). Feature Importance in Explainable AI for Expounding Black Box Models. In: Saraswat, M., Chowdhury, C., Kumar Mandal, C., Gandomi, A.H. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Data Science and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 552. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6634-7_58

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