AI GlossaryExplainability

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Explainability.

The ability to understand and interpret how an AI model makes its decisions.

In-depth explanation

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Explainability (or interpretability) is crucial for trust, debugging, and compliance. Methods include feature importance, attention visualization, LIME, SHAP, and concept activation vectors. There's often a trade-off between accuracy and explainability—simpler models are more interpretable but less powerful. Regulations increasingly require explainability in high-stakes decisions.

Examples

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EX. 01

Explaining loan rejections

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Medical diagnosis reasoning

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