The different choices of approach take different (optional) parameters, which are forwarded from explain(). See the general usage for more information about the different approaches.

setup_approach(internal, ...)

# S3 method for class 'combined'
setup_approach(internal, ...)

# S3 method for class 'categorical'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  categorical.joint_prob_dt = NULL,
  categorical.epsilon = 0.001,
  ...
)

# S3 method for class 'copula'
setup_approach(internal, ...)

# S3 method for class 'ctree'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  ctree.mincriterion = 0.95,
  ctree.minsplit = 20,
  ctree.minbucket = 7,
  ctree.sample = TRUE,
  ...
)

# S3 method for class 'empirical'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  empirical.type = "fixed_sigma",
  empirical.eta = 0.95,
  empirical.fixed_sigma = 0.1,
  empirical.n_samples_aicc = 1000,
  empirical.eval_max_aicc = 20,
  empirical.start_aicc = 0.1,
  empirical.cov_mat = NULL,
  model = NULL,
  predict_model = NULL,
  ...
)

# S3 method for class 'gaussian'
setup_approach(internal, gaussian.mu = NULL, gaussian.cov_mat = NULL, ...)

# S3 method for class 'independence'
setup_approach(internal, ...)

# S3 method for class 'regression_separate'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  regression.model = parsnip::linear_reg(),
  regression.tune_values = NULL,
  regression.vfold_cv_para = NULL,
  regression.recipe_func = NULL,
  ...
)

# S3 method for class 'regression_surrogate'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  regression.model = parsnip::linear_reg(),
  regression.tune_values = NULL,
  regression.vfold_cv_para = NULL,
  regression.recipe_func = NULL,
  regression.surrogate_n_comb =
    internal$iter_list[[length(internal$iter_list)]]$n_coalitions - 2,
  ...
)

# S3 method for class 'timeseries'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  timeseries.fixed_sigma = 2,
  timeseries.bounds = c(NULL, NULL),
  ...
)

# S3 method for class 'vaeac'
setup_approach(
  internal,
  vaeac.depth = 3,
  vaeac.width = 32,
  vaeac.latent_dim = 8,
  vaeac.activation_function = torch::nn_relu,
  vaeac.lr = 0.001,
  vaeac.n_vaeacs_initialize = 4,
  vaeac.epochs = 100,
  vaeac.extra_parameters = list(),
  ...
)

Arguments

internal

List. Not used directly, but passed through from explain().

...

Arguments passed to specific classes. See below

categorical.joint_prob_dt

Data.table. (Optional) Containing the joint probability distribution for each combination of feature values. NULL means it is estimated from the x_train and x_explain.

categorical.epsilon

Numeric value. (Optional) If categorical.joint_probability_dt is not supplied, probabilities/frequencies are estimated using x_train. If certain observations occur in x_explain and NOT in x_train, then epsilon is used as the proportion of times that these observations occurs in the training data. In theory, this proportion should be zero, but this causes an error later in the Shapley computation.

ctree.mincriterion

Numeric scalar or vector. Either a scalar or vector of length equal to the number of features in the model. The value is equal to 1 - \(\alpha\) where \(\alpha\) is the nominal level of the conditional independence tests. If it is a vector, this indicates which value to use when conditioning on various numbers of features. The default value is 0.95.

ctree.minsplit

Numeric scalar. Determines minimum value that the sum of the left and right daughter nodes required for a split. The default value is 20.

ctree.minbucket

Numeric scalar. Determines the minimum sum of weights in a terminal node required for a split The default value is 7.

ctree.sample

Boolean. If TRUE (default), then the method always samples n_MC_samples observations from the leaf nodes (with replacement). If FALSE and the number of observations in the leaf node is less than n_MC_samples, the method will take all observations in the leaf. If FALSE and the number of observations in the leaf node is more than n_MC_samples, the method will sample n_MC_samples observations (with replacement). This means that there will always be sampling in the leaf unless sample = FALSE and the number of obs in the node is less than n_MC_samples.

empirical.type

Character. (default = "fixed_sigma") Should be equal to either "independence","fixed_sigma", "AICc_each_k" "AICc_full". "independence" is deprecated. Use approach = "independence" instead. "fixed_sigma" uses a fixed bandwidth (set through empirical.fixed_sigma) in the kernel density estimation. "AICc_each_k" and "AICc_full" optimize the bandwidth using the AICc criterion, with respectively one bandwidth per coalition size and one bandwidth for all coalition sizes.

empirical.eta

Numeric scalar. Needs to be 0 < eta <= 1. The default value is 0.95. Represents the minimum proportion of the total empirical weight that data samples should use. If e.g. eta = .8 we will choose the K samples with the largest weight so that the sum of the weights accounts for 80\ eta is the \(\eta\) parameter in equation (15) of Aas et al. (2021).

empirical.fixed_sigma

Positive numeric scalar. The default value is 0.1. Represents the kernel bandwidth in the distance computation used when conditioning on all different coalitions. Only used when empirical.type = "fixed_sigma"

empirical.n_samples_aicc

Positive integer. Number of samples to consider in AICc optimization. The default value is 1000. Only used for empirical.type is either "AICc_each_k" or "AICc_full".

empirical.eval_max_aicc

Positive integer. Maximum number of iterations when optimizing the AICc. The default value is 20. Only used for empirical.type is either "AICc_each_k" or "AICc_full".

empirical.start_aicc

Numeric. Start value of the sigma parameter when optimizing the AICc. The default value is 0.1. Only used for empirical.type is either "AICc_each_k" or "AICc_full".

empirical.cov_mat

Numeric matrix. (Optional) The covariance matrix of the data generating distribution used to define the Mahalanobis distance. NULL means it is estimated from x_train.

model

Objects. The model object that ought to be explained. See the documentation of explain() for details.

predict_model

Function. The prediction function used when model is not natively supported. See the documentation of explain() for details.

gaussian.mu

Numeric vector. (Optional) Containing the mean of the data generating distribution. NULL means it is estimated from the x_train.

gaussian.cov_mat

Numeric matrix. (Optional) Containing the covariance matrix of the data generating distribution. NULL means it is estimated from the x_train.

regression.model

A tidymodels object of class model_specs. Default is a linear regression model, i.e., parsnip::linear_reg(). See tidymodels for all possible models, and see the vignette for how to add new/own models. Note, to make it easier to call explain() from Python, the regression.model parameter can also be a string specifying the model which will be parsed and evaluated. For example, "parsnip::rand_forest(mtry = hardhat::tune(), trees = 100, engine = "ranger", mode = "regression")" is also a valid input. It is essential to include the package prefix if the package is not loaded.

regression.tune_values

Either NULL (default), a data.frame/data.table/tibble, or a function. The data.frame must contain the possible hyperparameter value combinations to try. The column names must match the names of the tuneable parameters specified in regression.model. If regression.tune_values is a function, then it should take one argument x which is the training data for the current coalition and returns a data.frame/data.table/tibble with the properties described above. Using a function allows the hyperparameter values to change based on the size of the coalition See the regression vignette for several examples. Note, to make it easier to call explain() from Python, the regression.tune_values can also be a string containing an R function. For example, "function(x) return(dials::grid_regular(dials::mtry(c(1, ncol(x)))), levels = 3))" is also a valid input. It is essential to include the package prefix if the package is not loaded.

regression.vfold_cv_para

Either NULL (default) or a named list containing the parameters to be sent to rsample::vfold_cv(). See the regression vignette for several examples.

regression.recipe_func

Either NULL (default) or a function that that takes in a recipes::recipe() object and returns a modified recipes::recipe() with potentially additional recipe steps. See the regression vignette for several examples. Note, to make it easier to call explain() from Python, the regression.recipe_func can also be a string containing an R function. For example, "function(recipe) return(recipes::step_ns(recipe, recipes::all_numeric_predictors(), deg_free = 2))" is also a valid input. It is essential to include the package prefix if the package is not loaded.

regression.surrogate_n_comb

Positive integer. Specifies the number of unique coalitions to apply to each training observation. The default is the number of sampled coalitions in the present iteration. Any integer between 1 and the default is allowed. Larger values requires more memory, but may improve the surrogate model. If the user sets a value lower than the maximum, we sample this amount of unique coalitions separately for each training observations. That is, on average, all coalitions should be equally trained.

timeseries.fixed_sigma

Positive numeric scalar. Represents the kernel bandwidth in the distance computation. The default value is 2.

timeseries.bounds

Numeric vector of length two. Specifies the lower and upper bounds of the timeseries. The default is c(NULL, NULL), i.e. no bounds. If one or both of these bounds are not NULL, we restrict the sampled time series to be between these bounds. This is useful if the underlying time series are scaled between 0 and 1, for example.

vaeac.depth

Positive integer (default is 3). The number of hidden layers in the neural networks of the masked encoder, full encoder, and decoder.

vaeac.width

Positive integer (default is 32). The number of neurons in each hidden layer in the neural networks of the masked encoder, full encoder, and decoder.

vaeac.latent_dim

Positive integer (default is 8). The number of dimensions in the latent space.

vaeac.activation_function

An torch::nn_module() representing an activation function such as, e.g., torch::nn_relu() (default), torch::nn_leaky_relu(), torch::nn_selu(), or torch::nn_sigmoid().

vaeac.lr

Positive numeric (default is 0.001). The learning rate used in the torch::optim_adam() optimizer.

vaeac.n_vaeacs_initialize

Positive integer (default is 4). The number of different vaeac models to initiate in the start. Pick the best performing one after vaeac.extra_parameters$epochs_initiation_phase epochs (default is 2) and continue training that one.

vaeac.epochs

Positive integer (default is 100). The number of epochs to train the final vaeac model. This includes vaeac.extra_parameters$epochs_initiation_phase, where the default is 2.

vaeac.extra_parameters

Named list with extra parameters to the vaeac approach. See vaeac_get_extra_para_default() for description of possible additional parameters and their default values.

Author

Martin Jullum

Lars Henry Berge Olsen