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Actionable feature discovery in counterfactuals using feature relevance explainers.

Wiratunga, Nirmalie; Wijekoon, Anjana; Nkisi-Orji, Ikechukwu; Martin, Kyle; Palihawadana, Chamath; Corsar, David

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Hayley Borck
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Viktor Eisenstadt
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Antonio S�nchez-Ruiz
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Michael Floyd
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Abstract

Counterfactual explanations focus on 'actionable knowledge' to help end-users understand how a Machine Learning model outcome could be changed to a more desirable outcome. For this purpose a counterfactual explainer needs to be able to reason with similarity knowledge in order to discover input dependencies that relate to outcome changes. Identifying the minimum subset of feature changes to action a change in the decision is an interesting challenge for counterfactual explainers. In this paper we show how feature relevance based explainers (i.e. LIME, SHAP), can inform a counterfactual explainer to identify the minimum subset of 'actionable features'. We demonstrate our DisCERN (Discovering Counterfactual Explanations using Relevance Features from Neighbourhoods) algorithm on three datasets and compare against the widely used counterfactual approach DiCE. Our preliminary results show that DisCERN to be a viable strategy that should be adopted to minimise the actionable changes.

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WIRATUNGA, N., WIJEKOON, A., NKISI-ORJI, I., MARTIN, K., PALIHAWADANA, C. and CORSAR, D. 2021. Actionable feature discovery in counterfactuals using feature relevance explainers. In Borck, H., Eisenstadt, V., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. and Floyd, M. (eds.) Workshop proceedings of the 29th International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR-WS 2021), 13-16 September 2021, [virtual event]. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3017. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 63-74. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3017/101.pdf

Conference Name Workshops of the 29th International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR-WS 2021)
Conference Location [virtual event]
Start Date Sep 13, 2021
End Date Sep 16, 2021
Acceptance Date Jun 11, 2021
Online Publication Date Sep 16, 2021
Publication Date Nov 24, 2021
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Pages 63-74
Series Title CEUR workshop proceedings
Series Number 3017
Series ISSN 1613-0073
Keywords Explainable AI; Counterfactual; Feature relevance; Actionable features
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1563535
Publisher URL http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3017/101.pdf

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