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Sequential Counterfactual Decision-Making Under Confounded Reward

Artificial Intelligence 2022-06-07 v1
Authors: Erik Skalnes
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Abstract

We investigate the limitations of random trials when the cause of interest is confounded with the effect by formalizing a counterfactual policy-space where the agent's natural predilection is input to a soft-intervention.

Keywords

counterfactual explanation belief revision logic and reasoning

Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.02216,
  title  = {Sequential Counterfactual Decision-Making Under Confounded Reward},
  author = {Erik Skalnes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02216},
  year   = {2022}
}

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