Towards Interpreting Multi-Objective Feature Associations

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Main Authors: Pillai, Nisha, Gireesan, Ganga, Rothrock Jr., Michael J., Nanduri, Bindu, Chen, Zhiqian, Ramkumar, Mahalingam
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Published: 2024
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author Pillai, Nisha
Gireesan, Ganga
Rothrock Jr., Michael J.
Nanduri, Bindu
Chen, Zhiqian
Ramkumar, Mahalingam
author_facet Pillai, Nisha
Gireesan, Ganga
Rothrock Jr., Michael J.
Nanduri, Bindu
Chen, Zhiqian
Ramkumar, Mahalingam
contents Understanding how multiple features are associated and contribute to a specific objective is as important as understanding how each feature contributes to a particular outcome. Interpretability of a single feature in a prediction may be handled in multiple ways; however, in a multi-objective prediction, it is difficult to obtain interpretability of a combination of feature values. To address this issue, we propose an objective specific feature interaction design using multi-labels to find the optimal combination of features in agricultural settings. One of the novel aspects of this design is the identification of a method that integrates feature explanations with global sensitivity analysis in order to ensure combinatorial optimization in multi-objective settings. We have demonstrated in our preliminary experiments that an approximate combination of feature values can be found to achieve the desired outcome using two agricultural datasets: one with pre-harvest poultry farm practices for multi-drug resistance presence, and one with post-harvest poultry farm practices for food-borne pathogens. In our combinatorial optimization approach, all three pathogens are taken into consideration simultaneously to account for the interaction between conditions that favor different types of pathogen growth. These results indicate that explanation-based approaches are capable of identifying combinations of features that reduce pathogen presence in fewer iterations than a baseline.
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spellingShingle Towards Interpreting Multi-Objective Feature Associations
Pillai, Nisha
Gireesan, Ganga
Rothrock Jr., Michael J.
Nanduri, Bindu
Chen, Zhiqian
Ramkumar, Mahalingam
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Understanding how multiple features are associated and contribute to a specific objective is as important as understanding how each feature contributes to a particular outcome. Interpretability of a single feature in a prediction may be handled in multiple ways; however, in a multi-objective prediction, it is difficult to obtain interpretability of a combination of feature values. To address this issue, we propose an objective specific feature interaction design using multi-labels to find the optimal combination of features in agricultural settings. One of the novel aspects of this design is the identification of a method that integrates feature explanations with global sensitivity analysis in order to ensure combinatorial optimization in multi-objective settings. We have demonstrated in our preliminary experiments that an approximate combination of feature values can be found to achieve the desired outcome using two agricultural datasets: one with pre-harvest poultry farm practices for multi-drug resistance presence, and one with post-harvest poultry farm practices for food-borne pathogens. In our combinatorial optimization approach, all three pathogens are taken into consideration simultaneously to account for the interaction between conditions that favor different types of pathogen growth. These results indicate that explanation-based approaches are capable of identifying combinations of features that reduce pathogen presence in fewer iterations than a baseline.
title Towards Interpreting Multi-Objective Feature Associations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00017