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U-CECE: A Universal Multi-Resolution Framework for Conceptual Counterfactual Explanations

Angeliki Dimitriou, Giorgos Filandrianos, Giorgos Stamou, Maria Lymperaiou, Nikolaos Chaidos

U-CECE generates conceptual counterfactual explanations at three detail levels with neural approximations that match or exceed exact graph methods in human preference.

arxiv:2604.08295 v3 · 2026-04-09 · cs.AI · cs.CV

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C1strongest claim

human surveys and LVLM-based evaluation show that the retrieved structural counterfactuals are semantically equivalent to, and often preferred over, exact GED-based ground-truth explanations.

C2weakest assumption

That the chosen graph representations and the transductive GNN / inductive GAE approximations faithfully encode the semantic relations required for valid conceptual counterfactuals without introducing systematic distortions.

C3one line summary

U-CECE offers a unified model-agnostic framework spanning atomic, relational, and structural levels for conceptual counterfactuals, with structural GNN/GAE modes producing explanations semantically equivalent or preferred to exact GED ground truth on CUB and Visual Genome.

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b273ea32412e8cbc6f57c2189a9dae0aa8ff2cb3052a8ead448934bdf9b1cfed

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arxiv: 2604.08295 · arxiv_version: 2604.08295v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.08295 · pith_short_12: WJZ6UMSBF2GL · pith_short_16: WJZ6UMSBF2GLY32X · pith_short_8: WJZ6UMSB

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