Can we use Anchor to explain already built models in our own way? about anchor

[DiliSR]

In LIME, explainer was created, after built the model. But in Anchor, we need to build the explainer before making the global model.

[marcotcr]

I'm glad you found the paper interesting.

Yes, you can train the model without encoding, provided that you don't have categorical features (i.e. the explainer will tread all features as ordinal / continuous and discretize them). You don't need to initialize the explainer before training the model, I just did it in that order because I wanted to use the explainer's encoder to encode the data before training the model. Note that the init function of the explainer does not depend on the model.