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Ghazimatin et al. obtain a counterfactual explanation by removing a minimal set of user actions so that the output recommendation changes.
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From A Survey of Contrastive and Counterfactual Explanation Generation Methods for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (2021) · cites this paper as [84]
Ghazimatin et al. propose a graph-based recommendation system in a counterfactual setup [84].
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- Authors
- Chakravartty, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Chakravartty, Anjan
- Venue
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 405-412
- ISSN
- 0039-3681 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2147293515
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy, Science, and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Keywords
- perspectivism, scientific models, model inconsistency, contrastive explanations, model interpretation, scientific knowledge
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