Counterfactual Contrastive Analysis
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arXiv:2608.19032v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Counterfactual Explanations (VCEs) aim to explain image classifiers by generating minimally edited and realistic versions of an input image that change the classifier's prediction. Existing VCE methods are inherently classifier-dependent and therefore susceptible to classifier biases and failure modes, such as sensitivity to shortcut features and calibration errors. In this paper, we propose a classifier-free approach for visual counterfactual generation based on Contrastive Analysis (CA). Given two datasets corresponding to diff
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.19032v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Counterfactual Explanations (VCEs) aim to explain image classifiers by generating minimally edited and realistic versions of an input image that change the classifier's prediction.
- Existing VCE methods are inherently classifier-dependent and therefore susceptible to classifier biases and failure modes, such as sensitivity to shortcut features and calibration errors.
- In this paper, we propose a classifier-free approach for visual counterfactual generation based on Contrastive Analysis (CA).
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