Generating robust counterfactual explanations

V Guyomard, F Fessant, T Guyet, T Bouadi… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - Springer
Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2023Springer
Counterfactual explanations have become a mainstay of the XAI field. This particularly
intuitive statement allows the user to understand what small but necessary changes would
have to be made to a given situation in order to change a model prediction. The quality of a
counterfactual depends on several criteria: realism, actionability, validity, robustness, etc. In
this paper, we are interested in the notion of robustness of a counterfactual. More precisely,
we focus on robustness to counterfactual input changes. This form of robustness is …
Abstract
Counterfactual explanations have become a mainstay of the XAI field. This particularly intuitive statement allows the user to understand what small but necessary changes would have to be made to a given situation in order to change a model prediction. The quality of a counterfactual depends on several criteria: realism, actionability, validity, robustness, etc. In this paper, we are interested in the notion of robustness of a counterfactual. More precisely, we focus on robustness to counterfactual input changes. This form of robustness is particularly challenging as it involves a trade-off between the robustness of the counterfactual and the proximity with the example to explain. We propose a new framework, CROCO, that generates robust counterfactuals while managing effectively this trade-off, and guarantees the user a minimal robustness. An empirical evaluation on tabular datasets confirms the relevance and effectiveness of our approach.
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