Counterfactual Explanations & Adversarial Examples - Common Grounds, Essential Differences, and Potential Transfers.
Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: The same optimization problem underlies counterfactual explanations (CEs) and adversarial examples (AEs). While this is well known, the relationship between the two at the conceptual level remains unclear. The present paper provides exactly the missing conceptual link. We compare CEs and AEs with respect to their philosophical basis, aims, and modeling techniques. We argue that CEs are a more general object-class than AEs. In particular, we introduce the conceptual distinction between feasible and contesting CEs and show that AEs correspond to the latter.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Timo Freiesleben
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3086276681