Commentary on explainable artificial intelligence methods: SHAP and LIME

eXplainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have emerged to convert the black box of machine learning models into a more digestible form. These methods help to communicate how the model works with the aim of making machine learning models more transparent and increasing the trust of end-users into their output. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Local Interpretable Model Agnostic Explanation (LIME) are two widely used XAI methods particularly with tabular data. In this commentary piece, we discuss the way the explainability metrics of these two methods are generated and propose a framework for interpretation of their outputs, highlighting their weaknesses and strengths.