Adding a Surrogate Model

Fiddler’s explainability features require a model on the backend that can generate explanations for you.

📘 If you don't want to or cannot upload your actual model file, Surrogate Models serve as a way for Fiddler to generate approximate explanations.

A surrogate model is built automatically when you call add_surrogate on an existing model that has a baseline dataset defined. You just need to provide a few key details on how your model operates during onboarding.

Surrogate Model prerequisites:

• An onboarded model with:

  • A defined model task (regression, binary classification, etc.)

  • A target column (ground truth labels)

  • An output column (model predictions)

  • Model feature columns

  • A baseline dataset

Update the artifact

DATASET_NAME = 'YOUR_DATASET_NAME'

dataset = fdl.Dataset.from_name(name=DATASET_NAME, model_id=model.id)

job = model.add_surrogate(
    dataset_id=dataset.id
)
job.wait()

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