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Explaining concepts by contrasting examples is an efficient and convenient way of giving insights into the reasons behind a classification decision. This is of particular interest in decision-critical domains, such as medical diagnostics.…

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Counterfactual explanations (CEs) are a practical tool for demonstrating why machine learning classifiers make particular decisions. For CEs to be useful, it is important that they are easy for users to interpret. Existing methods for…

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