Counterfactual explanations with the k-Nearest Neighborhood classifier and uncertain data

Counterfactual Analysis is a powerful tool in Explainable Machine Learning. Given a classifier and a record, one seeks the smallest perturbation necessary to have the perturbed record, called the counterfactual explanation, classified in the desired class. Feature uncertainty in data reflects the inherent variability and noise present in real-world scenarios, and therefore, there is a … Read more

Optimal counterfactual explanations for k-Nearest Neighbors using Mathematical Optimization and Constraint Programming

Within the topic of explainable AI, counterfactual explanations to classifiers have received significant recent attention. We study counterfactual explanations that try to explain why a data point received an undesirable classification by providing the closest data point that would have received a desirable one. Within the context of one the simplest and most popular classification … Read more