提出因果归因得分CAS,区分预测与因果解释。
CAS: A Causal Attribution Score for Local and Global Explainable Artificial Intelligence

- 基于干预联盟博弈,用因果Shapley值分配联合干预效应。
- 在模拟和真实数据中,局部和全局CAS显著优于传统方法。
- 适合关注因果异质性解释的研究者或从业者。
预测性解释方法仅能归因模型输出,无法直接解释干预对真实结果的影响。本文提出因果归因得分(CAS),一种紧凑的因果解释架构。CAS从已识别的干预联盟博弈出发,利用因果Shapley贡献分配联合干预对比,并将原始结果尺度效应转化为局部CAS、带符号局部CAS及两种互补的全局CAS汇总。创新点不在于新公式,而在于具有明确干预目标的局部到全局因果报告层。在已知真值基准测试中,8次重复主交互模拟(每组n=2,200,3种操作)显示,联盟感知的CAS平均局部MAE为0.107,优于单次归一化(0.173)和全局归一化绝对ATE向量(0.213)。相较于单次归一化,其优势从加性条件下的-0.003提升至强交互下的0.091。在两个实证DoubleML数据集上——401(k)资格/净金融资产(n=9,915)和宾夕法尼亚再就业补贴/失业时长(n=5,099)——预测型SHAP/TreeSHAP排序与特征- CAS对处理效应调节因子的排序存在显著差异。在宾夕法尼亚案例中,有恰好一个依赖者的变量(dep1)从预测全局排名13跃升至特征-CAS排名2,成为主要局部特征- CAS调节因子。这些结果凸显了将预测与因果异质性解释相分离的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Predictive explanation methods attribute a model output; they do not, by themselves, attribute an intervention effect on the real-world outcome. We introduce the Causal Attribution Score (CAS), a compact score architecture for causal explanation. CAS starts from an identified interventional coalition game, allocates the joint intervention contrast with causal Shapley contributions, and converts those raw outcome-scale effects into Local CAS, Signed Local CAS, and two complementary Global CAS summaries. The innovation is not a new Shapley formula, but a local-to-global causal reporting layer with an explicit intervention target. In the known-truth benchmark, eight repeated primary-interaction simulations (n = 2,200 each, three actions) gave mean Local CAS MAE of 0.107 for coalition-aware CAS, compared with 0.173 for one-at-a-time normalisation and 0.213 for a global normalised absolute ATE vector. The paired advantage over one-at-a-time normalisation increased from -0.003 under additivity to 0.091 under strong interactions. On both empirical DoubleML datasets, 401(k) eligibility/net financial assets (n = 9,915) and Pennsylvania reemployment bonus/unemployment duration (n = 5,099), predictive SHAP/TreeSHAP rankings differed materially from Feature-CAS rankings of treatment-effect modifiers. In Pennsylvania, dep1 (exactly one dependent) moved from predictive global rank 13 to Feature-CAS rank 2 and was the leading local Feature-CAS modifier. These results isolate the added value of separating what predicts the outcome from what explains heterogeneity in an estimated causal effect.
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