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One major impediment to widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) in investment management is their black-box nature: how would you explain to an investor why the machine makes a certain outlook? What\u2019s the intuition behind a certain ML trading strategy? How would you explain a major drawdown? This lack of \u201cinterpretability\u201d is not just a problem for financial ML, it is a prevalent issue in applying ML to any domain. If you don\u2019t understand the underlying mechanisms of an anticipatory model, you may not trust its outlooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feature importance ranking goes a long way towards providing better interpretability to ML models. The feature importance score indicates how much information a feature contributes when building a supervised learning model. The importance score is calculated for each feature in the dataset, allowing the features to be ranked. The investor can therefore see the most important features used in the outlooks, and in fact apply \u201cfeature selection\u201d to only include those important features in the anticipatory model. However, as my colleague Nancy Xin Man and I have demonstrated in\u00a0Man and Chan 2021a<\/a>, common feature selection algorithms (e.g. MDA, LIME, SHAP) can exhibit high variability in the importance rankings of features: different random seeds often produce vastly different importance rankings. For e.g. if we run MDA on some cross validation set multiple times with different seeds, it is possible that a feature in a run is ranked at the top of the list but dropped to the bottom in the next run. This variability\u00a0of course eliminates any interpretability benefit of feature selection. Interestingly, despite this variability in importance ranking, feature selection still generally improves out-of-sample expected performance on multiple data sets that we tested in the above paper. This may be due to the \u201csubstitution effect\u201d: many alternative (substitute) features can be used to build anticipatory models with similar expected power. (In linear regression, substitution effect is called \u201ccollinearity\u201d.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reduce variability (or what we called instability<\/em>) in feature importance rankings and to improve interpretability, we found that LIME is generally preferable to SHAP, and definitely preferable to MDA. Another way to reduce instability is to increase the number of iterations during runs of the feature importance algorithms. In a typical implementation of MDA, every feature is permuted multiple times. But standard implementations of LIME and SHAP have set the number of iterations to 1 by default, which isn\u2019t conducive to stability. In LIME, each instance and its perturbed samples only fit one linear model, but we can perturb them multiple times to fit multiple linear models. In SHAP, we can permute the samples multiple times. Our experiments have shown that instability of the top ranked features do approximately converge to some minimum as the number of iterations increases; however, this minimum is not zero. So there remains some residual variability of the top ranked features, which may be attributable to the substitution effect as discussed before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To further improve interpretability, we want to remove the residual variability. L\u00f3pez de Prado, M. (2020)<\/a> described a clustering method to cluster together features are that are similar and  should receive the same importance rankings. This promises to be a great way to remove the substitution effect. In our new paper Man and Chan 2021b<\/a> , we applied a hierarchical clustering methodology prior to MDA feature selection to the same data sets we studied previously. This method is generally called cMDA. As they say in social media click baits, the results will (pleasantly) surprise you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit the PredictNow.ai website to read more about the hierarchical cluster-based feature selection: https:\/\/www.predictnow.ai\/blog\/the-amazing-efficacy-of-cluster-based-feature-selection\/<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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