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VisRuler: Visual Analytics for Extracting Decision Rules from Bagged and Boosted Decision Trees
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of computer science and media technology (CM). (ISOVIS)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9079-2376
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of computer science and media technology (CM). (ISOVIS)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2901-935X
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of computer science and media technology (CM). Linköping University, Sweden. (ISOVIS, DISA)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0519-2537
2023 (English)In: Information Visualization, ISSN 1473-8716, E-ISSN 1473-8724, Vol. 22, no 2, p. 115-139Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Bagging and boosting are two popular ensemble methods in machine learning (ML) that produce many individual decision trees. Due to the inherent ensemble characteristic of these methods, they typically outperform single decision trees or other ML models in predictive performance. However, numerous decision paths are generated for each decision tree, increasing the overall complexity of the model and hindering its use in domains that require trustworthy and explainable decisions, such as finance, social care, and health care. Thus, the interpretability of bagging and boosting algorithms—such as random forest and adaptive boosting—reduces as the number of decisions rises. In this paper, we propose a visual analytics tool that aims to assist users in extracting decisions from such ML models via a thorough visual inspection workflow that includes selecting a set of robust and diverse models (originating from different ensemble learning algorithms), choosing important features according to their global contribution, and deciding which decisions are essential for global explanation (or locally, for specific cases). The outcome is a final decision based on the class agreement of several models and the explored manual decisions exported by users. We evaluated the applicability and effectiveness of VisRuler via a use case, a usage scenario, and a user study. The evaluation revealed that most users managed to successfully use our system to explore decision rules visually, performing the proposed tasks and answering the given questions in a satisfying way.

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Sage Publications, 2023. Vol. 22, no 2, p. 115-139
Keywords [en]
Decisions evaluation, rules interpretation, ensemble learning, visual analytics, visualization
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Computer Sciences Human Computer Interaction
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Computer Science, Information and software visualization
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-117897DOI: 10.1177/14738716221142005ISI: 000916155000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85144842887OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-117897DiVA, id: diva2:1718869
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ELLIIT - The Linköping‐Lund Initiative on IT and Mobile CommunicationsAvailable from: 2022-12-13 Created: 2022-12-13 Last updated: 2023-03-06Bibliographically approved

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