A query-optimal algorithm for finding counterfactuals

Authors: Guy Blanc, Caleb Koch, Jane Lange, Li-Yang Tan

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical Our work is theoretical in nature: we give an algorithm with strong bounds on its query complexity and all the counterfactuals that it returns are guaranteed to be optimal. We view our main contribution as proving the curse of dimensionality can be strongly evaded for a broad and natural class of models all monotone models.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Department of Computer Science, Stanford University 2Department of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Pseudocode Yes Figure 1: Helper algorithm FINDMINIMAL Figure 2: Algorithm for finding optimal counterfactuals, using FINDMINIMAL as its main subroutine.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any explicit statement about open-sourcing its code or a link to a code repository.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and proofs. It does not conduct experiments on datasets or mention any training data.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and proofs. It does not mention any validation dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any experimental hardware specifications.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not list any specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and proofs. It does not provide details about an experimental setup, such as hyperparameters or training settings.