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Demonstrator on Counterfactual Explanations for Differentially Private Support Vector Machines
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Digital Systems, Industrial Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0995-9835
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Digital Systems, Industrial Systems.ORCID iD: 0009-0002-8016-5923
Stockholm University, Sweden.
Stockholm University, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Cham: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023, Vol. 13718, p. 662-666Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

We demonstrate the construction of robust counterfactual explanations for support vector machines (SVM), where the privacy mechanism that publicly releases the classifier guarantees differential privacy. Privacy preservation is essential when dealing with sensitive data, such as in applications within the health domain. In addition, providing explanations for machine learning predictions is an important requirement within so-called high risk applications, as referred to in the EU AI Act. Thus, the innovative aspects of this work correspond to studying the interaction between three desired aspects: accuracy, privacy, and explainability. The SVM classification accuracy is affected by the privacy mechanism through the introduced perturbations in the classifier weights. Consequently, we need to consider a trade-off between accuracy and privacy. In addition, counterfactual explanations, which quantify the smallest changes to selected data instances in order to change their classification, may become not credible when we have data privacy guarantees. Hence, robustness for counterfactual explanations is needed in order to create confidence about the credibility of the explanations. Our demonstrator provides an interactive environment to show the interplay between the considered aspects of accuracy, privacy, and explainability. 

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Cham: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023. Vol. 13718, p. 662-666
Keywords [en]
Counterfactual explanations, Differential privacy, Support vector machines, Economic and social effects, Sensitive data, Classification accuracy, Counterfactual explanation, Counterfactuals, Differential privacies, Machine-learning, Privacy mechanisms, Privacy preservation, Sensitive datas, Support vector machine classification, Support vectors machine
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-65393DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26422-1_52Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85150995194ISBN: 9783031264214 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-65393DiVA, id: diva2:1768369
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22nd Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022. Grenoble. 19 September 2022 through 23 September 2022
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Correspondence Address: Mochaourab, R.; Digital Systems Division, Sweden; email: rami.mochaourab@ri.se; Funding text 1: Acknowledgements. This work has been supported by the Digital Futures center (https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se) within the project “EXTREMUM: Explainable and Ethical Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery from Medical Data Sources”.

Available from: 2023-06-15 Created: 2023-06-15 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved

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