Glossary Entry

Interpretable Model

A model whose behaviour can be understood directly enough for humans to inspect, validate, and act on its reasoning.

Models Decision Making

Also called: interpretable models, interpretable modelling, interpretable modeling, white-box model, white-box models

Seed source: Interpretable Machine Learning

An interpretable model exposes its reasoning in a form people can work with. That might be a small decision tree, a linear model with meaningful coefficients, a rule list, or another structure where the path from input to output is inspectable.

Interpretability is especially valuable when a model output becomes a business decision. If stakeholders need to approve, challenge, or operationalise the output, a transparent model can be more useful than a black-box model with slightly better offline metrics.