How to use feature importance to examine the impact of different features on model predictions in the Engine?

The article outlines the steps to generate feature importance score for supervised machine learning models.

Note: Feature importance is only available for successfully trained models

Step 1 - Click the “Generate” button

You can generate feature importance at the model summary tab and at the model Insight tab.

  1. From the model summary tab, click the “Generate” button in the Feature Importance card,


    Model summary tab

2. From the model summary tab:

  • Go to Insights

  • Go to Feature Importance and click the “Generate” button

Model summary tab

Model summary tab

Model summary tab

Note: Users only need to generate feature importance once. Once successfully generated, it will always be available.

When users generate feature importance, prediction explanation examples will also be generated, and vice versa.

Step 2 - Navigate to view the full Feature Importance

There are 2 ways to quickly navigate to the Feature Importance sub tab:

  1. From the model summary tab, click “view details” in the feature importance card,

Model summary tab

2. From the model summary tab:

  • Go to Insights

  • Go to Feature Importance

By default, up to 5 most important features are displayed. 

Top 5 most important features

To see the remaining feature and their contribution, click “show all”


All features and their contributions

Note: For models that predict a label from a list of labels (multi-class classification), the feature importance scores are different for different labels. Use the dropdown to select a label of interest and view the corresponding feature importance scores.

Selecting a label of interest