01554nas a2200157   4500008004100000245007400041210006900115520102800184100002301212700001901235700002101254700002001275700002401295700001901319856005801338       2019                        eng d00aFactual and Counterfactual Explanations for Black Box Decision Making0 aFactual and Counterfactual Explanations for Black Box Decision M3 aThe rise of sophisticated machine learning models has brought accurate but obscure decision systems, which hide their logic, thus undermining transparency, trust, and the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in socially sensitive and safety-critical contexts. We introduce a local rule-based explanation method, providing faithful explanations of the decision made by a black box classifier on a specific instance. The proposed method first learns an interpretable, local classifier on a synthetic neighborhood of the instance under investigation, generated by a genetic algorithm. Then, it derives from the interpretable classifier an explanation consisting of a decision rule, explaining the factual reasons of the decision, and a set of counterfactuals, suggesting the changes in the instance features that would lead to a different outcome. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing approaches in terms of the quality of the explanations and of the accuracy in mimicking the black box.1 aGuidotti, Riccardo1 aMonreale, Anna1 aGiannotti, Fosca1 aPedreschi, Dino1 aRuggieri, Salvatore1 aTurini, Franco  uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8920138