%0 Conference Proceedings %T ML-ModelExplorer: An Explorative Model-Agnostic Approach to Evaluate and Compare Multi-class Classifiers %+ Aalen University of Applied Sciences %+ Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science [Leiden] (LIACS) %A Theissler, Andreas %A Vollert, Simon %A Benz, Patrick %A Meerhoff, Laurentius, A. %A Fernandes, Marc %< avec comité de lecture %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B 4th International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) %C Dublin, Ireland %Y Andreas Holzinger %Y Peter Kieseberg %Y A Min Tjoa %Y Edgar Weippl %I Springer International Publishing %3 Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction %V LNCS-12279 %P 281-300 %8 2020-08-25 %D 2020 %R 10.1007/978-3-030-57321-8_16 %K Multi-class classification %K Model selection %K Feature selection %K Human-centered machine learning %K Visual analytics %Z Computer Science [cs] %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesConference papers %X A major challenge during the development of Machine Learning systems is the large number of models resulting from testing different model types, parameters, or feature subsets. The common approach of selecting the best model using one overall metric does not necessarily find the most suitable model for a given application, since it ignores the different effects of class confusions. Expert knowledge is key to evaluate, understand and compare model candidates and hence to control the training process. This paper addresses the research question of how we can support experts in the evaluation and selection of Machine Learning models, alongside the reasoning about them. ML-ModelExplorer is proposed – an explorative, interactive, and model-agnostic approach utilising confusion matrices. It enables Machine Learning and domain experts to conduct a thorough and efficient evaluation of multiple models by taking overall metrics, per-class errors, and individual class confusions into account. The approach is evaluated in a user-study and a real-world case study from football (soccer) data analytics is presented.ML-ModelExplorer and a tutorial video are available online for use with own data sets: www.ml-and-vis.org/mex %G English %Z TC 5 %Z TC 8 %Z TC 12 %Z WG 8.4 %Z WG 8.9 %Z WG 12.9 %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03414731/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03414731/file/497121_1_En_16_Chapter.pdf %L hal-03414731 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-03414731 %~ SHS %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC5 %~ IFIP-WG %~ IFIP-TC12 %~ IFIP-TC8 %~ IFIP-WG8-4 %~ IFIP-WG8-9 %~ IFIP-CD-MAKE %~ IFIP-WG12-9 %~ IFIP-LNCS-12279