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Learning Time Series Counterfactuals via Latent Space Representations

11 Oct 2021International Conference on Discovery Science 2021 10archive 2025-07-28

Zhendong Wang, Isak Samsten, Rami Mochaourab, Panagiotis Papapetrou

Counterfactual explanations can provide sample-based explanations of features required to modify from the original sample to change the classification result from an undesired state to a desired state; hence it provides interpretability of the model. Previous work of LatentCF presents an algorithm for image data that employs auto-encoder models to directly transform original samples into counterfactuals in a latent space representation. In our paper, we adapt the approach to time series classification and propose an improved algorithm named LatentCF++ which introduces additional constraints in the counterfactual generation process. We conduct an extensive experiment on a total of 40 datasets from the UCR archive, comparing to current state-of-the-art methods. Based on our evaluation metrics, we show that the LatentCF++ framework can with high probability generate valid counterfactuals and achieve …

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