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Mark T Keane

7 accepted papers

2026

Explanations for Sequential Decision-Making – an Overview

AAAI 2026technical

In this paper, we highlight the field of explainable sequential decision making. We discuss how the problem of explaining sequential decisions gives rise to problems and challenges that are absent from scenarios that focus on explaining single-shot decision making. We provide a short survey of some

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2024

Counterfactual Explanations for Misclassified Images: How Human and Machine Explanations Differ (Abstract Reprint)

AAAI 2024technical

Counterfactual explanations have emerged as a popular solution for the eXplainable AI (XAI) problem of elucidating the predictions of black-box deep-learning systems because people easily understand them, they apply across different problem domains and seem to be legally compliant. Although over 100…

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2023

Advancing Post-Hoc Case-Based Explanation with Feature Highlighting

IJCAI 2023poster

Explainable AI (XAI) has been proposed as a valuable tool to assist in downstream tasks involving human-AI collaboration. Perhaps the most psychologically valid XAI techniques are case-based approaches which display "whole" exemplars to explain the predictions of black-box AI systems. However, for s…

2023

Even If Explanations: Prior Work, Desiderata & Benchmarks for Semi-Factual XAI

IJCAI 2023poster

Recently, eXplainable AI (XAI) research has focused on counterfactual explanations as post-hoc justifications for AI-system decisions (e.g., a customer refused a loan might be told “if you asked for a loan with a shorter term, it would have been approved”). Counterfactuals explain what changes to th…

2021

If Only We Had Better Counterfactual Explanations: Five Key Deficits to Rectify in the Evaluation of Counterfactual XAI Techniques

IJCAI 2021poster

In recent years, there has been an explosion of AI research on counterfactual explanations as a solution to the problem of eXplainable AI (XAI). These explanations seem to offer technical, psychological and legal benefits over other explanation techniques. We survey 100 distinct counterfactual expl…

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2021

On Generating Plausible Counterfactual and Semi-Factual Explanations for Deep Learning

AAAI 2021technical

There is a growing concern that the recent progress made in AI, especially regarding the predictive competence of deep learning models, will be undermined by a failure to properly explain their operation and outputs. In response to this disquiet, counterfactual explanations have become very popular…

2020

Bayesian Case-Exclusion and Personalized Explanations for Sustainable Dairy Farming (Extended Abstract)

IJCAI 2020poster

Smart agriculture (SmartAg) has emerged as a rich domain for AI-driven decision support systems (DSS); however, it is often challenged by user-adoption issues. This paper reports a case-based reasoning (CBR) system, PBI-CBR, that predicts grass growth for dairy farmers, that combines predictive accu…

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