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 …

Counterfactual explanations and algorithmic recourses for machine learning: A review

S Verma, V Boonsanong, M Hoang, K Hines… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - 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 comprehensive taxonomy for explainable artificial intelligence: a systematic survey of surveys on methods and concepts

G Schwalbe, B Finzel - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2023 - Springer
In the meantime, a wide variety of terminologies, motivations, approaches, and evaluation
criteria have been developed within the research field of explainable artificial intelligence …

Explainable image classification with evidence counterfactual

T Vermeire, D Brughmans, S Goethals… - Pattern Analysis and …, 2022 - Springer
The complexity of state-of-the-art modeling techniques for image classification impedes the
ability to explain model predictions in an interpretable way. A counterfactual explanation …

Nice: an algorithm for nearest instance counterfactual explanations

D Brughmans, P Leyman, D Martens - Data mining and knowledge …, 2023 - 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 …

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 …

The privacy issue of counterfactual explanations: explanation linkage attacks

S Goethals, K Sörensen, D Martens - ACM Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Black-box machine learning models are used in an increasing number of high-stakes
domains, and this creates a growing need for Explainable AI (XAI). However, the use of XAI …

Explainable AI and causal understanding: Counterfactual approaches considered

S Baron - Minds and Machines, 2023 - Springer
The counterfactual approach to explainable AI (XAI) seeks to provide understanding of AI
systems through the provision of counterfactual explanations. In a recent systematic review …

A model-agnostic and data-independent tabu search algorithm to generate counterfactuals for tabular, image, and text data

RMB de Oliveira, K Sörensen, D Martens - European Journal of Operational …, 2024 - Elsevier
The growing prevalence of artificial decision systems has prompted a keen interest in their
efficiency, yet this progress is accompanied by their inherent complexity. This poses a …