eSardine: A General Purpose Platform with Autonomous AI and Explainable Outputs

Inês Lima, Nuno Leite, Adriano Pinto, Pedro Pires, Carlos Martins, Nuno Lopes

2022

Abstract

The combination of high computational power and data awareness triggered an increasing demand for business applications from industrial players. However, harnessing the knowledge from data requires expertise, usually being a time-consuming task. Additionally, the users’ trust in the results obtained is commonly compromised due to the black box behavior of most Machine Learning models. This paper proposes a general-purpose platform, eSardine, that leverages automatic machine learning and explainability to produce fast, reliable, and interpretable results. The eSardine platform integrates forefront tools to enhance, and automate the data science process, with minimal human interaction. For any tabular supervised classification and regression problems, predicted outputs are given, as well as an explainability report of each prediction. The inclusion of AutoML tools, i.e. , automatic model tuning and selection, presented a strong baseline whose capabilities are amplified by built-in, yet customizable, autonomous processing mechanisms. The explainable reports aim to increase users’ confidence in the models’ quality and robustness. Furthermore, in the industrial context, understanding key factors unveiled in these reports is determinant to increase the business model’s profitability. The platform was evaluated in two public datasets, where it outperformed state-of-the-art results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lima I., Leite N., Pinto A., Pires P., Martins C. and Lopes N. (2022). eSardine: A General Purpose Platform with Autonomous AI and Explainable Outputs. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 612-625. DOI: 10.5220/0010970000003116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Inês Lima and Nuno Leite and Adriano Pinto and Pedro Pires and Carlos Martins and Nuno Lopes},
title={eSardine: A General Purpose Platform with Autonomous AI and Explainable Outputs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={612-625},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010970000003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - eSardine: A General Purpose Platform with Autonomous AI and Explainable Outputs
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Lima I.
AU - Leite N.
AU - Pinto A.
AU - Pires P.
AU - Martins C.
AU - Lopes N.
PY - 2022
SP - 612
EP - 625
DO - 10.5220/0010970000003116