Tree-based models like random forests are favored over deep learning for tabular data due to their prediction performance and efficiency.
Local Feature Importances (LFI) methods such as LIME and TreeSHAP provide sample-specific explanations but have limitations.
MDI+ is a global feature importance method but lacks explanations for predictions with diverse individual characteristics.
To address this, Local MDI+ (LMDI+) has been introduced, outperforming LIME and TreeSHAP in identifying instance-specific signal features and enhancing interpretability.