Global Model-Agnostic Methods
Techniques for understanding overall model behavior.
Chapter 12: Partial Dependence and ALE Plots Partial Dependence Plots (PDP), Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) [Feature effects, correlation handling, visualization] Chapter 13: Feature Importance and Interactions Permutation Feature Importance, Feature Interaction analysis [H-statistics, interaction strength, ranking features] Chapter 14: Leave-One-Out and Surrogate Models Leave One Feature Out (LOFO) Importance, Surrogate Models [Global surrogates, decision tree proxies, model distillation] Chapter 15: Functional Decomposition and Prototypes Functional Decomposition, Prototypes and Criticisms [Model factorization, representative instances, outlier detection]