提出因果算法救济框架,让AI能给出可操作的改命建议。
Causal Algorithmic Recourse: Foundations and Methods

- 用因果模型建模救济过程,支持潜在变量重采样
- 基于观测数据推断救济效果,无需干预实验
- 适合需要可解释救济方案的信贷、招聘场景
AI决策系统的可信性日益重要。一个关键能力是为个体提供逆转负面决策的建议,即算法救济问题。现有方法将救济结果视为固定个体的反事实,忽略了现实救济中同一人在不同潜在条件下会经历多次决策。本文构建了一个因果框架,将救济建模为干预前后结果的动态过程,允许潜在变量的部分稳定性和重采样。引入后救济稳定性条件,使仅从观测数据即可推理救济效果,并提出基于联合分布函数(copula)的算法来推断救济影响。在存在同一人干预前后配对观测数据(称为救济数据)的场景下,开发了参数估计与拟合优度检验方法。当联合分布模型被拒绝时,提供一种无分布假设的直接学习救济效应的方法。在真实和半合成数据集上验证了所提方法的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The trustworthiness of AI decision-making systems is increasingly important. A key feature of such systems is the ability to provide recommendations for how an individual may reverse a negative decision, a problem known as algorithmic recourse. Existing approaches treat recourse outcomes as counterfactuals of a fixed unit, ignoring that real-world recourse involves repeated decisions on the same individual under possibly different latent conditions. We develop a causal framework that models recourse as a process over pre- and post-intervention outcomes, allowing for partial stability and resampling of latent variables. We introduce post-recourse stability conditions that enable reasoning about recourse from observational data alone, and develop a copula-based algorithm for inferring the effects of recourse under these conditions. For settings where paired observations of the same individual before and after intervention are available (called recourse data), we develop methods for inferring copula parameters and performing goodness-of-fit testing. When the copula model is rejected, we provide a distribution-free algorithm for learning recourse effects directly from recourse data. We demonstrate the value of the proposed methods on real and semi-synthetic datasets.
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