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by aimor 1411 days ago
Yes, I've been looking at using decision trees for explaining models that are difficult to understand. Currently seeing useful results on real data sets. If you're interested, I've implemented parts of TREPAN [1] and it's very approachable. However it's also important to have interpretable features which is a whole other thing.

[1] https://research.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/...