arXiv:2511.20236cs.AIcs.LG2025-11

让机器学习解释更真实可行,自动考虑特征间关系和行业规则

Actionable and diverse counterfactual explanations incorporating domain knowledge and plausibility constraints

  • 用线性与概率结构建模特征依赖,生成符合现实的解释
  • 在140个数据集上表现优于或媲美现有方法,兼顾多样性与可行性
  • 适合需要可操作、可信解释的工业场景,如邮件营销决策

反事实解释通过识别实现期望结果所需的最小改动,提升机器学习模型的可行动可解释性。然而,现有方法常忽略特征间的依赖关系,导致修改方案不切实际,降低其在真实决策系统中的价值。针对电子邮件营销中的安全应用需求,我们提出DANCE(多样化、可行动且受知识约束的解释)方法,通过从数据中学习或由专家指定的线性与概率结构建模特征关系,并在搜索过程中强制执行这些约束以提高解释的合理性与可行性。该方法在统一目标下联合优化可置信度、多样性、接近性和稀疏性。我们在OpenML上的140个数据集上进行评估,结果显示其在多个评价标准下表现竞争或更优。此外,在与一家邮件营销平台合作的真实工业场景中验证,DANCE能生成符合领域规范且可操作的建议。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Counterfactual explanations improve the actionable interpretability of machine learning models by identifying minimal changes required to achieve a desired outcome. However, existing methods often neglect dependencies among features, which can lead to unrealistic or impractical modifications. This limitation reduces the usefulness of counterfactual explanations in real-world decision-support systems. Motivated by applications in cybersecurity for email marketing, we propose DANCE (Diverse, Actionable, and Knowledge-Constrained Explanations), a method for generating counterfactuals that incorporate feature dependencies and domain constraints. DANCE models relationships between features using linear and probabilistic structures that can be learned from data or specified by experts. These dependencies are enforced during the search process to improve plausibility and feasibility. The method jointly optimizes plausibility, diversity, proximity, and sparsity within a unified objective. We evaluate DANCE on 140 datasets from OpenML and demonstrate that it achieves competitive or superior performance compared to existing approaches across multiple evaluation criteria. Additionally, we validate the method in a real-world industrial setting in collaboration with an email marketing platform, showing that it produces domain-consistent and actionable recommendations.

反事实解释可行动性领域知识多样性

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