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Causality-based Explanation of Classification Outcomes

Machine Learning 2020-05-26 v2 Artificial Intelligence Databases Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a simple definition of an explanation for the outcome of a classifier based on concepts from causality. We compare it with previously proposed notions of explanation, and study their complexity. We conduct an experimental evaluation with two real datasets from the financial domain.

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@article{arxiv.2003.06868,
  title  = {Causality-based Explanation of Classification Outcomes},
  author = {Leopoldo Bertossi and Jordan Li and Maximilian Schleich and Dan Suciu and Zografoula Vagena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06868},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

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