Interpretable vs Explainable Machine Learning

The difference between an interpretable and explainable model and why it’s probably not that important

Conor O'Sullivan
Towards Data Science
7 min readSep 17, 2020

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Updated 23 April 2023

When you first dive into the field of interpretable machine learning you will notice similar terms flying around. Interpretability vs explainability. Interpretations vs…

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