Counterfactual explanations and how to find them: literature review and benchmarking

R Guidotti - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2024 - Springer
Interpretable machine learning aims at unveiling the reasons behind predictions returned by
uninterpretable classifiers. One of the most valuable types of explanation consists of …

Counterfactual explanations and algorithmic recourses for machine learning: A review

S Verma, V Boonsanong, M Hoang, K Hines… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning plays a role in many deployed decision systems, often in ways that are
difficult or impossible to understand by human stakeholders. Explaining, in a human …

Towards unifying feature attribution and counterfactual explanations: Different means to the same end

R Kommiya Mothilal, D Mahajan, C Tan… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Feature attributions and counterfactual explanations are popular approaches to explain a
ML model. The former assigns an importance score to each input feature, while the latter …

Nice: an algorithm for nearest instance counterfactual explanations

D Brughmans, P Leyman, D Martens - Data mining and knowledge …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper we propose a new algorithm, named NICE, to generate counterfactual
explanations for tabular data that specifically takes into account algorithmic requirements …

Solving the class imbalance problem using a counterfactual method for data augmentation

M Temraz, MT Keane - Machine Learning with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Learning from class imbalanced datasets poses challenges for many machine learning
algorithms. Many real-world domains are, by definition, class imbalanced by virtue of having …

Achieving diversity in counterfactual explanations: a review and discussion

T Laugel, A Jeyasothy, MJ Lesot, C Marsala… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), counterfactual examples explain to a
user the predictions of a trained decision model by indicating the modifications to be made …

Gam coach: Towards interactive and user-centered algorithmic recourse

ZJ Wang, J Wortman Vaughan, R Caruana… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) recourse techniques are increasingly used in high-stakes domains,
providing end users with actions to alter ML predictions, but they assume ML developers …

Explainable ai: Foundations, applications, opportunities for data management research

R Pradhan, A Lahiri, S Galhotra, B Salimi - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Algorithmic decision-making systems are successfully being adopted in a wide range of
domains for diverse tasks. While the potential benefits of algorithmic decision-making are …

[HTML][HTML] An empirical study on how humans appreciate automated counterfactual explanations which embrace imprecise information

I Stepin, JM Alonso-Moral, A Catala… - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The explanatory capacity of interpretable fuzzy rule-based classifiers is usually limited to
offering explanations for the predicted class only. A lack of potentially useful explanations for …

Keep your friends close and your counterfactuals closer: Improved learning from closest rather than plausible counterfactual explanations in an abstract setting

U Kuhl, A Artelt, B Hammer - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) highlight changes to a model's input that alter its
prediction in a particular way. s have gained considerable traction as a psychologically …