ECCCos from the Black Box

Faithful Model Explanations through Energy-Constrained Conformal Counterfactuals

Patrick Altmeyer
Towards Data Science
15 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Counterfactual explanations offer an intuitive and straightforward way to explain opaque machine learning (ML) models. They work under the premise of perturbing inputs to achieve a desired change in the predicted output.

If you have not heard about counterfactual explanations before, feel free to also check out my introductory posts: 1) Individual Recourse for Black Box Models and 2) A new tool for explainable AI.

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PhD in Trustworthy AI at Delft University of Technology — Explainability, Probabilistic ML, Counterfactual Explanations, JuliaLang, rstats & sometimes python