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“What is Different Between These Datasets?” A Framework for Explaining Data Distribution Shifts

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  • Haebom

Author

Varun Babbar, Zhicheng Guo, Cynthia Rudin

Outline

This paper highlights that while machine learning model performance heavily relies on the quality of input data, real-world applications often face data-related challenges. Specifically, we address the common problem of distributional differences between two datasets collected from the same domain. While existing techniques for detecting distributional differences exist, a comprehensive approach that goes beyond opaque quantitative metrics and explains these differences in a human-readable way has been lacking. To address this, this paper proposes a multi-interpretable methodological framework for dataset comparison. Through various case studies, we demonstrate the effectiveness of this methodology across various data types and dimensions, including tabular data, text data, images, and time-series signals. This methodology complements existing techniques to provide actionable and interpretable insights that help understand and address distributional shifts.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
A new framework is presented to enable interpretable comparisons of distributional differences between datasets across various data types and dimensions.
Explaining distribution differences in a way that people can understand, beyond traditional quantitative indicators.
Contribute to solving data-related problems that arise during the development and deployment of machine learning models.
Provides actionable and interpretable insights to help you understand and address distributional shifts.
Limitations:
More comprehensive experiments and analysis are needed to determine the general performance and limitations of the proposed framework.
There may be a bias towards certain data types or dimensions.
The applicability and effectiveness of the framework need to be evaluated for various real-world application cases.
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