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 …

A survey on causal inference for recommendation

H Luo, F Zhuang, R Xie, H Zhu, D Wang, Z An, Y Xu - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
Causal inference has recently garnered significant interest among recommender system
(RS) researchers due to its ability to dissect cause-and-effect relationships and its broad …

Diffusion models for counterfactual explanations

G Jeanneret, L Simon, F Jurie - Proceedings of the Asian …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Counterfactual explanations have shown promising results as a post-hoc framework to make
image classifiers more explainable. In this paper, we propose DiME, a method allowing the …

Evaluating the faithfulness of saliency maps in explaining deep learning models using realistic perturbations

JP Amorim, PH Abreu, J Santos, M Cortes… - Information Processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep Learning has reached human-level performance in several medical tasks including
classification of histopathological images. Continuous effort has been made at finding …

Fast diffusion-based counterfactuals for shortcut removal and generation

N Weng, P Pegios, E Petersen, A Feragen… - European Conference on …, 2025 - Springer
Shortcut learning is when a model–eg a cardiac disease classifier–exploits correlations
between the target label and a spurious shortcut feature, eg a pacemaker, to predict the …

Ganterfactual-rl: Understanding reinforcement learning agents' strategies through visual counterfactual explanations

T Huber, M Demmler, S Mertes, ML Olson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Counterfactual explanations are a common tool to explain artificial intelligence models. For
Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents, they answer" Why not?" or" What if?" questions by …

Countarfactuals–generating plausible model-agnostic counterfactual explanations with adversarial random forests

S Dandl, K Blesch, T Freiesleben, G König… - World Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Counterfactual explanations elucidate algorithmic decisions by pointing to scenarios that
would have led to an alternative, desired outcome. Giving insight into the model's behavior …

Conditional Generative Models for Synthetic Tabular Data: Applications for Precision Medicine and Diverse Representations

K Liu, RB Altman - Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Tabular medical datasets, like electronic health records (EHRs), biobanks, and structured
clinical trial data, are rich sources of information with the potential to advance precision …

Self-interpretable time series prediction with counterfactual explanations

J Yan, H Wang - International Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Interpretable time series prediction is crucial for safety-critical areas such as healthcare and
autonomous driving. Most existing methods focus on interpreting predictions by assigning …

CARMA: A practical framework to generate recommendations for causal algorithmic recourse at scale

A Majumdar, I Valera - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Algorithms are increasingly used to automate large-scale decision-making processes, eg,
online platforms that make instant decisions in lending, hiring, and education. When such …