arXiv:2601.17309cs.LG2026-01被引 2

提出高效生成合理可操作建议的新方法,让模型决策更透明可信。

PAR: Plausibility-aware Amortized Recourse Generation

  • 将可操作建议建模为受约束的后验推断问题,直接评估建议概率。
  • 生成的建议既符合通过群体分布,又与原数据相似且稀疏有效。
  • 适合需要可解释性决策的场景,如信贷审批、招聘筛选。

算法可操作性旨在推荐对事实样本属性的可行动修改,使其模型决策由不利转为有利,同时保持现实可行。本文将可操作性形式化为在被接受类数据分布下的受限最大后验(MAP)推断问题,寻求高似然的反事实样本并满足其他可操作约束。我们提出PAR,一种高效的近似推断方法,可快速生成高似然的可操作建议。通过可解析的概率模型直接估计建议似然,支持精确似然计算和高效的梯度传播,用于训练。该生成器的目标是最大化在被接受类分布下的似然,最小化在被拒绝类分布下的似然,以及其它编码可操作约束的损失。此外,PAR引入基于邻域的条件机制,使建议更贴合具体事实样本。我们在多个常用算法可操作数据集上验证了PAR,结果表明其生成的建议在有效性、与原样本相似性、稀疏性和高合理性方面均优于现有最优方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Algorithmic recourse aims to recommend actionable changes to a factual's attributes that flip an unfavorable model decision while remaining realistic and feasible. We formulate recourse as a Constrained Maximum A-Posteriori (MAP) inference problem under the accepted-class data distribution seeking counterfactuals with high likelihood while respecting other recourse constraints. We present PAR, an amortized approximate inference procedure that generates highly likely recourses efficiently. Recourse likelihood is estimated directly using tractable probabilistic models that admit exact likelihood evaluation and efficient gradient propagation that is useful during training. The recourse generator is trained with the objective of maximizing the likelihood under the accepted-class distribution while minimizing the likelihood under the denied-class distribution and other losses that encode recourse constraints. Furthermore, PAR includes a neighborhood-based conditioning mechanism to promote recourse generation that is customized to a factual. We validate PAR on widely used algorithmic recourse datasets and demonstrate its efficiency in generating recourses that are valid, similar to the factual, sparse, and highly plausible, yielding superior performance over existing state-of-the-art approaches.

可解释性反事实生成公平性

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