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Interpretable Counterfactual Explanations Guided by Prototypes

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arxiv 1907.02584 v2 pith:HVK54E2C submitted 2019-07-03 cs.LG stat.ML

classification cs.LGstat.ML
keywords classcounterfactualexplanationsinterpretablemethodprototypesmetricsagnostic
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We propose a fast, model agnostic method for finding interpretable counterfactual explanations of classifier predictions by using class prototypes. We show that class prototypes, obtained using either an encoder or through class specific k-d trees, significantly speed up the the search for counterfactual instances and result in more interpretable explanations. We introduce two novel metrics to quantitatively evaluate local interpretability at the instance level. We use these metrics to illustrate the effectiveness of our method on an image and tabular dataset, respectively MNIST and Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic). The method also eliminates the computational bottleneck that arises because of numerical gradient evaluation for $\textit{black box}$ models.

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