Daniele Magazzeni

Model-based contrastive explanations for explainable planning

2019 · Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde)

An important type of question that arises in Explainable Planning is a contrastive question, of the form “Why action A instead of action B?”. These kinds of questions can be answered with a contrastive explanation …

Learn to explain yourself, when you can: Equipping Concept Bottleneck Models with the ability to abstain on their concept predictions

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) of Koh et al. [2020] provide a means to ensure that a neural network based classifier bases its predictions solely on human understandable concepts. The concept labels, or rationales as …

GLOBE-CE: A Translation-Based Approach for Global Counterfactual Explanations

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Counterfactual explanations have been widely studied in explainability, with a range of application dependent methods prominent in fairness, recourse and model understanding. The major shortcoming associated with these methods, however, is their inability to provide …