Search Results for author: Foster Provost

Found 6 papers, 2 papers with code

Causal Decision Making and Causal Effect Estimation Are Not the Same... and Why It Matters

no code implementations8 Apr 2021 Carlos Fernández-Loría, Foster Provost

Recently, we have seen an acceleration of research related to CDM and causal effect estimation (CEE) using machine-learned models.

Decision Making

A Comparison of Methods for Treatment Assignment with an Application to Playlist Generation

1 code implementation24 Apr 2020 Carlos Fernández-Loría, Foster Provost, Jesse Anderton, Benjamin Carterette, Praveen Chandar

This study presents a systematic comparison of methods for individual treatment assignment, a general problem that arises in many applications and has received significant attention from economists, computer scientists, and social scientists.

Decision Making

Counterfactual Explanation Algorithms for Behavioral and Textual Data

3 code implementations4 Dec 2019 Yanou Ramon, David Martens, Foster Provost, Theodoros Evgeniou

This study aligns the recently proposed Linear Interpretable Model-agnostic Explainer (LIME) and Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) with the notion of counterfactual explanations, and empirically benchmarks their effectiveness and efficiency against SEDC using a collection of 13 data sets.

counterfactual Counterfactual Explanation

Explaining Classification Models Built on High-Dimensional Sparse Data

no code implementations21 Jul 2016 Julie Moeyersoms, Brian d'Alessandro, Foster Provost, David Martens

We evaluate these alternatives in terms of explanation "bang for the buck,", i. e., how many examples' inferences are explained for a given number of features listed.

Classification General Classification +1

Enhancing Transparency and Control when Drawing Data-Driven Inferences about Individuals

no code implementations26 Jun 2016 Daizhuo Chen, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Robert Moakler, Foster Provost

Recent studies have shown that information disclosed on social network sites (such as Facebook) can be used to predict personal characteristics with surprisingly high accuracy.

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