Interpretable or Accurate? Why Not Both?

Building interpretable Boosting Models with IntepretML

Parul Pandey
Towards Data Science
8 min readMay 27, 2021

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As summed up by Miller, interpretability refers to the degree to which a human can understand the cause of a decision. A common notion in the machine learning community is that a trade-off exists between accuracy and interpretability. This means that the learning methods that are more accurate offer less…

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