The mythos of model interpretability

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 35-43

  Lipton, Zachary C ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85054551793     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/3233231     Document Type: Article

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