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January 23, 2020217 citationsOpen Access

The hidden assumptions behind counterfactual explanations and principal reasons

SBSolon BarocasMicrosoft (United States)ASAndrew D. SelbstUniversity of California, Los AngelesMRManish RaghavanMoscow Institute of Thermal Technology

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Counterfactual explanations are gaining prominence within technical, legal, and business circles as a way to explain the decisions of a machine learning model. These explanations share a trait with the long-established "principal reason" explanations required by U.S. credit laws: they both explain a decision by highlighting a set of features deemed most relevant---and withholding others.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a123ff1ea48cb855a3476dbhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372830
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