\dm_csml_event_details UCL ELLIS

Explaining Kernel Methods with RKHS-SHAP


Speaker

Siu Lun (Alan) Chau

Affiliation

Oxford University

Date

Friday, 29 April 2022

Time

12:00-13:00

Location

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, 25 Howland St, London W1T 4JG

Link

https://ucl.zoom.us/j/97245943682

Event series

Jump Trading/ELLIS CSML Seminar Series

Abstract

Feature attribution for kernel methods is often heuristic and not individualised for each prediction. To address this, we turn to the concept of Shapley values, a coalition game theoretical framework that has previously been applied to different machine learning model interpretation tasks. By analysing Shapley values from a functional perspective, we propose RKHS-SHAP, an attribution method for kernel machines that can efficiently compute both Interventional and Observational Shapley values using kernel mean embeddings of distributions. In this talk, we will start by introducing Shapley values, and how they are used to interpret models such as linear models, trees and deep nets, and finally we will present RKHS-SHAP as the latest member to this family of model-specific SHAP methods.

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