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 …

A survey of algorithmic recourse: contrastive explanations and consequential recommendations

AH Karimi, G Barthe, B Schölkopf, I Valera - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning is increasingly used to inform decision making in sensitive situations
where decisions have consequential effects on individuals' lives. In these settings, in …

Causal machine learning: A survey and open problems

J Kaddour, A Lynch, Q Liu, MJ Kusner… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Causal Machine Learning (CausalML) is an umbrella term for machine learning methods
that formalize the data-generation process as a structural causal model (SCM). This …

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 …

Explaining black-box algorithms using probabilistic contrastive counterfactuals

S Galhotra, R Pradhan, B Salimi - Proceedings of the 2021 International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) that
aims to reduce the opaqueness of AI-based decision-making systems, allowing humans to …

Post-hoc explanations fail to achieve their purpose in adversarial contexts

S Bordt, M Finck, E Raidl, U von Luxburg - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Existing and planned legislation stipulates various obligations to provide information about
machine learning algorithms and their functioning, often interpreted as obligations to …

Denoising diffusion algorithm for inverse design of microstructures with fine-tuned nonlinear material properties

NN Vlassis, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-
tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generative models that use …

Desiderata for representation learning: A causal perspective

Y Wang, MI Jordan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2109.03795, 2021 - arxiv.org
Representation learning constructs low-dimensional representations to summarize essential
features of high-dimensional data. This learning problem is often approached by describing …

Counterfactual shapley additive explanations

E Albini, J Long, D Dervovic, D Magazzeni - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Feature attributions are a common paradigm for model explanations due to their simplicity in
assigning a single numeric score for each input feature to a model. In the actionable …

Local explanations via necessity and sufficiency: Unifying theory and practice

DS Watson, L Gultchin, A Taly… - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Necessity and sufficiency are the building blocks of all successful explanations. Yet despite
their importance, these notions have been conceptually underdeveloped and inconsistently …