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A game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model.

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Understand how machine learning models make decisions by using a game-based explanation method.

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A game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model.

shap has 25.6k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3.7k times. shap is written mainly in Jupyter Notebook. It has been in active development since 2016. shap is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are deep-learning, explainability, gradient-boosting, interpretability.

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A game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model.

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shap is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

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Yes. shap is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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shap is available under the MIT license.

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shap is written mainly in Jupyter Notebook.

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