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Francesco Leofante

10 accepted papers

2026

Attribution-based Explanations for Markov Decision Processes

IJCAI 2026

Attribution techniques explain the outcome of an AI model by assigning a numerical score to its inputs. So far, these techniques have mainly focused on attributing importance to static input features at a single point in time, and thus fail to generalize to sequential decision-making settings. This

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2026

Synthesising Counterfactual Explanations via Label-Conditional Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoders

ICLR 2026poster

Counterfactual explanations (CEs) provide recourse recommendations for individuals affected by algorithmic decisions. A key challenge is generating CEs that are robust against various perturbation types (e.g. input and model perturbations) while simultaneously satisfying other desirable properties.…

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2025

Counterfactual Explanations Under Model Multiplicity and Their Use in Computational Argumentation

IJCAI 2025

Counterfactual explanations (CXs) are widely recognised as an essential technique for providing recourse recommendations for AI models. However, it is not obvious how to determine CXs in model multiplicity scenarios, where equally performing but different models can be obtained for the same task. In

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2025

Counterfactual Strategies for Markov Decision Processes

IJCAI 2025

Counterfactuals are widely used in AI to explain how minimal changes to a model’s input can lead to a different output. However, established methods for computing counterfactuals typically focus on one-step decision-making, and are not directly applicable to sequential decision-making tasks. This pa

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2025

Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Test-time scaling improves large language models' (LLMs) performance by allocating more compute budget during inference. To achieve this, existing methods often require intricate modifications to prompting and sampling strategies. In this work, we introduce representation consistency (RC), a test-ti…

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2025

RobustX: Robust Counterfactual Explanations Made Easy

IJCAI 2025

The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) models to aid decision-making in high-stakes industries demands explainability to facilitate trust. Counterfactual Explanations (CEs) are ideally suited for this, as they can offer insights into the predictions of an ML model by illustrating how changes in

2024

Robust Counterfactual Explanations in Machine Learning: A Survey

IJCAI 2024poster

Counterfactual explanations (CEs) are advocated as being ideally suited to providing algorithmic recourse for subjects affected by the predictions of machine learning models. While CEs can be beneficial to affected individuals, recent work has exposed severe issues related to the robustness of state…

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2023

Formalising the Robustness of Counterfactual Explanations for Neural Networks

AAAI 2023technical

The use of counterfactual explanations (CFXs) is an increasingly popular explanation strategy for machine learning models. However, recent studies have shown that these explanations may not be robust to changes in the underlying model (e.g., following retraining), which raises questions about their…