Generally-Occurring Model Change for Robust Counterfactual Explanations

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Main Authors: Xu, Ao, Wu, Tieru
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author Xu, Ao
Wu, Tieru
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Wu, Tieru
contents With the increasing impact of algorithmic decision-making on human lives, the interpretability of models has become a critical issue in machine learning. Counterfactual explanation is an important method in the field of interpretable machine learning, which can not only help users understand why machine learning models make specific decisions, but also help users understand how to change these decisions. Naturally, it is an important task to study the robustness of counterfactual explanation generation algorithms to model changes. Previous literature has proposed the concept of Naturally-Occurring Model Change, which has given us a deeper understanding of robustness to model change. In this paper, we first further generalize the concept of Naturally-Occurring Model Change, proposing a more general concept of model parameter changes, Generally-Occurring Model Change, which has a wider range of applicability. We also prove the corresponding probabilistic guarantees. In addition, we consider a more specific problem, data set perturbation, and give relevant theoretical results by combining optimization theory.
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spellingShingle Generally-Occurring Model Change for Robust Counterfactual Explanations
Xu, Ao
Wu, Tieru
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Methodology
With the increasing impact of algorithmic decision-making on human lives, the interpretability of models has become a critical issue in machine learning. Counterfactual explanation is an important method in the field of interpretable machine learning, which can not only help users understand why machine learning models make specific decisions, but also help users understand how to change these decisions. Naturally, it is an important task to study the robustness of counterfactual explanation generation algorithms to model changes. Previous literature has proposed the concept of Naturally-Occurring Model Change, which has given us a deeper understanding of robustness to model change. In this paper, we first further generalize the concept of Naturally-Occurring Model Change, proposing a more general concept of model parameter changes, Generally-Occurring Model Change, which has a wider range of applicability. We also prove the corresponding probabilistic guarantees. In addition, we consider a more specific problem, data set perturbation, and give relevant theoretical results by combining optimization theory.
title Generally-Occurring Model Change for Robust Counterfactual Explanations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11426