papersSEP 12 04:00 UTC
Specified-Foil Counterfactuals Proposed for Temporal Graph Explanations
A new arXiv paper argues that existing counterfactual explanation methods for temporal graphs only show how to alter past events to flip a prediction, without stating what the resulting outcome should become. The authors introduce "specified-foil" counterfactuals, which target a particular alternative outcome rather than leaving the replacement undefined. The work aims to give users more actionable explanations of predicted events in time-evolving graph data.