Counterfactuals - the solution to fairness and explainability?

Counterfactuals tell us what our model would've done under a different situation - helping us understand whether it is biased and how it came to a decision.

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Links:
Ferenc Huszár's post: https://www.inference.vc/untitled/
and MLSS talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgx_SBBzn0&ab_channel=MLSSAfrica

Counterfactual Fairness: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06856
Getting a CLUE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06848
The Hidden Assumptions Behind Counterfactual Explanations and Principal Reasons: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04930
Explaining Machine Learning Classifiers through Diverse Counterfactual Explanations: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.07697.pdf
Model-Agnostic Counterfactual Explanations
for Consequential Decisions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.11190.pdf
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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Overview
01:33 Causal Inference
02:22 Interventions
02:48 Structured Equation Model
03:09 Ferenc Huszár's explanation
04:30 Counterfactuals are specific to one person
05:05 Counterfactual Fairness
07:18 Counterfactual Explanations
08:15 Limitations of Counterfactuals
09:21 Addressing Limitations
10:49 Wrap-up - the best definition?
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