AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is LIME?
LIME (also called Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations): A technique that explains a single prediction of any model by perturbing the input many times, seeing how the model's output changes, and fitting a simple interpretable model, such as a sparse linear one, that approximates the model near that point.
LIME: an example
To explain why a spam filter flagged one email, LIME removes words at random and finds that the word 'lottery' pushes the score most.
Related terms
- SHAP
- Local explanation
- Surrogate model
- Post-hoc explanation
More AI ethics law product terms
- Local explanation
- Machine unlearning
- Model card
- North Star metric
- OECD AI Principles
- Overreliance on AI
- Partial dependence plot
- Personal data
Where you learn it
LIME is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.