Split Explainer into Base & Explainer #649
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This PR splits the
Explainer
class into aBase
andExplainer
.The
Base
class currently implements a structured approach to handle metadata (to be extended). This split allows us to introduce other base classes for new packages that do not conform to theExplainer
interface. For example, algorithms for prototype selection are not explainers. Calling theexplain
method when, in fact, they are summarizing/distilling the dataset is not appropriate. Furthermore, functionalities such as saving and loading might expect other arguments, and resetting the prediction might not apply.Possible to be used for the
confidence
package too.Observation. The functionality of the
Explanation
class is already quite general and works for all packages. Changing the name to something more general would involve a lot of refactoring, which we don’t want to do, at least for now.