Alibi Model Explainer

Alibi server is an implementation for providing black box model explanation for KFServer models.

To start the server locally for development needs, run the following command under this folder in your github repository.

This server uses Poetry to manage its environment. Please make sure you install poetry before continuing.

Local development

Python environment

1. If you have asdf-vm installed the .tool-versions will specify required version of Python
2. Otherwise create and activate conda environment with appropriate Python version

Install dependencies

To install dependencies run

poetry install

Alternativey use the Makefile target:

make dev_install

Running Tests

To run tests run

poetry run pytest -v .

Alternatively use the Makefile target:

make test

The Makefile also has tests for full worked examples.

Notes

• Pythin 3.8 ubi can not be presently used because this would require all explainer models to be saved as python 3.8 in examples otherwise dill load issues happen.
• KernelShap has issues for models not saved in matching python to Docker container - e.g., py36