Model-Free Counterfactual Subset Selection at Scale

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Autori principali: Nguyen, Minh Hieu, Doan, Viet Hung, Nguyen, Anh Tuan, Jo, Jun, Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung
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author Nguyen, Minh Hieu
Doan, Viet Hung
Nguyen, Anh Tuan
Jo, Jun
Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung
author_facet Nguyen, Minh Hieu
Doan, Viet Hung
Nguyen, Anh Tuan
Jo, Jun
Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung
contents Ensuring transparency in AI decision-making requires interpretable explanations, particularly at the instance level. Counterfactual explanations are a powerful tool for this purpose, but existing techniques frequently depend on synthetic examples, introducing biases from unrealistic assumptions, flawed models, or skewed data. Many methods also assume full dataset availability, an impractical constraint in real-time environments where data flows continuously. In contrast, streaming explanations offer adaptive, real-time insights without requiring persistent storage of the entire dataset. This work introduces a scalable, model-free approach to selecting diverse and relevant counterfactual examples directly from observed data. Our algorithm operates efficiently in streaming settings, maintaining $O(\log k)$ update complexity per item while ensuring high-quality counterfactual selection. Empirical evaluations on both real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate superior performance over baseline methods, with robust behavior even under adversarial conditions.
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spellingShingle Model-Free Counterfactual Subset Selection at Scale
Nguyen, Minh Hieu
Doan, Viet Hung
Nguyen, Anh Tuan
Jo, Jun
Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung
Machine Learning
Databases
Data Structures and Algorithms
Information Retrieval
Ensuring transparency in AI decision-making requires interpretable explanations, particularly at the instance level. Counterfactual explanations are a powerful tool for this purpose, but existing techniques frequently depend on synthetic examples, introducing biases from unrealistic assumptions, flawed models, or skewed data. Many methods also assume full dataset availability, an impractical constraint in real-time environments where data flows continuously. In contrast, streaming explanations offer adaptive, real-time insights without requiring persistent storage of the entire dataset. This work introduces a scalable, model-free approach to selecting diverse and relevant counterfactual examples directly from observed data. Our algorithm operates efficiently in streaming settings, maintaining $O(\log k)$ update complexity per item while ensuring high-quality counterfactual selection. Empirical evaluations on both real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate superior performance over baseline methods, with robust behavior even under adversarial conditions.
title Model-Free Counterfactual Subset Selection at Scale
topic Machine Learning
Databases
Data Structures and Algorithms
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08326