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FACEGroup: Feasible and Actionable Counterfactual Explanations for Group Fairness

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  • Haebom

Author

Christos Fragkathoulas, Vasiliki Papanikou, Evaggelia Pitoura, Evimaria Terzi

Outline

This paper presents FACEGroup, a graph-based framework for generating group counterfactual explanations for group fairness audits. FACEGroup models real-world feasibility constraints, identifies subgroups with similar counterfactual explanations, and captures key trade-offs in generating counterfactual explanations. Distinct from existing methods, FACEGroup introduces novel metrics for group- and subgroup-level analysis to assess fairness. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that FACEGroup effectively generates feasible group counterfactual explanations while accounting for trade-offs, and that the proposed metrics capture and quantify fairness imbalances.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present the first graph-based framework for group fairness auditing.
Considering real-world feasibility constraints.
Identification and analysis of subgroups with similar counterfactual descriptions.
A new fairness evaluation metric considering the trade-offs in generating semi-realistic explanations is presented.
Validation of effectiveness through benchmark dataset experiments.
Limitations:
There is no explicit mention of Limitations presented in this paper. Further research is needed to verify its practical applicability and scalability.
Further discussion is needed regarding the generalizability of the benchmark datasets used.
FACEGroup's performance analysis for various graph structures and properties may be lacking.
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