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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Applicant:
Salesforce, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wenzhuo Yang, Singapore, SG;
Jia Li, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chu Hong Hoi, Singapore, SG;
Caiming Xiong, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Salesforce, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/045 (2023.01); G06F 18/21 (2023.01); G06F 18/2113 (2023.01); G06F 18/2413 (2023.01); G06F 18/243 (2023.01); G06N 5/01 (2023.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/045 (2013.01); G06F 18/2113 (2023.01); G06F 18/217 (2023.01); G06F 18/24147 (2023.01); G06F 18/24323 (2023.01); G06N 5/01 (2023.01); G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide a two-stage model-agnostic approach for generating counterfactual explanation via counterfactual feature selection and counterfactual feature optimization. Given a query instance, counterfactual feature selection picks a subset of feature columns and values that can potentially change the prediction and then counterfactual feature optimization determines the best feature value for the selected feature as a counterfactual example.