DiCoFlex: model-agnostic diverse counterfactuals with flexible control

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dc.abstract.enCounterfactual explanations play a pivotal role in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) by offering intuitive, human-understandable alternatives that elucidate ma- chine learning model decisions. Despite their significance, existing methods for generating counterfactuals often require constant access to the predictive model, involve computationally intensive optimization for each instance and lack the flex- ibility to adapt to new user-defined constraints without retraining. In this paper, we propose DiCoFlex, a novel model-agnostic, conditional generative framework that produces multiple diverse counterfactuals in a single forward pass. Leveraging conditional normalizing flows trained solely on labeled data, DiCoFlex addresses key limitations by enabling real-time user-driven customization of constraints such as sparsity and actionability at inference time. Extensive experiments on standard benchmark datasets show that DiCoFlex outperforms existing methods in terms of validity, diversity, proximity, and constraint adherence, making it a practical and scalable solution for counterfactual generation in sensitive decision-making domains.
dc.affiliationSzkoła Doktorska Nauk Ścisłych i Przyrodniczych
dc.affiliationWydział Matematyki i Informatyki : Instytut Informatyki i Matematyki Komputerowej
dc.conference39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: Includes Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
dc.conference.citySan Diego
dc.conference.countryStany Zjednoczone
dc.conference.datefinish2025-12-07
dc.conference.datestart2025-12-02
dc.conference.seriesAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
dc.conference.seriesshortcutNeurIPS
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dc.conference.shortcutNeurIPS 2025
dc.conference.weblinkhttps://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025
dc.contributor.authorFurman, Oleksii
dc.contributor.authorMovsum-zada, Ulvi - 448393
dc.contributor.authorMarszałek, Patryk - 433763
dc.contributor.authorZieba, Maciej
dc.contributor.authorŚmieja, Marek - 135996
dc.date.accession2026-09-03
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dc.description.seriesAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
dc.description.seriesnumber38
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dc.identifier.doi10.52202/085713-2405
dc.identifier.isbn979-8-3313-3827-5
dc.identifier.urihttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/handle/item/581395
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dc.publisherCurran Associates, Inc.
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dc.titleDiCoFlex: model-agnostic diverse counterfactuals with flexible control
dc.title.containerAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38
dc.title.volumeThe Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA. Dec 2nd - 7th, 2025. Mexico City, MX
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Counterfactual explanations play a pivotal role in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) by offering intuitive, human-understandable alternatives that elucidate ma- chine learning model decisions. Despite their significance, existing methods for generating counterfactuals often require constant access to the predictive model, involve computationally intensive optimization for each instance and lack the flex- ibility to adapt to new user-defined constraints without retraining. In this paper, we propose DiCoFlex, a novel model-agnostic, conditional generative framework that produces multiple diverse counterfactuals in a single forward pass. Leveraging conditional normalizing flows trained solely on labeled data, DiCoFlex addresses key limitations by enabling real-time user-driven customization of constraints such as sparsity and actionability at inference time. Extensive experiments on standard benchmark datasets show that DiCoFlex outperforms existing methods in terms of validity, diversity, proximity, and constraint adherence, making it a practical and scalable solution for counterfactual generation in sensitive decision-making domains.
dc.affiliation
Szkoła Doktorska Nauk Ścisłych i Przyrodniczych
dc.affiliation
Wydział Matematyki i Informatyki : Instytut Informatyki i Matematyki Komputerowej
dc.conference
39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: Includes Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
dc.conference.city
San Diego
dc.conference.country
Stany Zjednoczone
dc.conference.datefinish
2025-12-07
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2025-12-02
dc.conference.series
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
dc.conference.seriesshortcut
NeurIPS
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https://neurips.cc
dc.conference.shortcut
NeurIPS 2025
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https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025
dc.contributor.author
Furman, Oleksii
dc.contributor.author
Movsum-zada, Ulvi - 448393
dc.contributor.author
Marszałek, Patryk - 433763
dc.contributor.author
Zieba, Maciej
dc.contributor.author
Śmieja, Marek - 135996
dc.date.accession
2026-09-03
dc.date.accessioned
2026-09-03T06:36:57Z
dc.date.available
2026-09-03T06:36:57Z
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2026-08-20T06:29:05Z
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2026
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
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38
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https://search.worldcat.org/title/1577644435?oclcNum=1577644435
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10.52202/085713-2405
dc.identifier.isbn
979-8-3313-3827-5
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https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/handle/item/581395
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https://www.proceedings.com/085713-2405.html
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https://openreview.net/forum?id=mJEBhuCim2
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eng
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eng
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[s.l.]
dc.publisher
Curran Associates, Inc.
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Udzielam licencji. Uznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowa
dc.rights.licence
CC-BY
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.pl
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inne
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ConferenceProceedings
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DiCoFlex: model-agnostic diverse counterfactuals with flexible control
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38
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The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA. Dec 2nd - 7th, 2025. Mexico City, MX
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BookSection
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