(Really) Using Counterfactuals to Explain AI Systems: Fundamentals, Methods, & User Studies for XAI

Half Day Tutorial presented at AAAI'25, Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, US

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Hands-On Sessions

This tutorial features two hands-on sessions: 1) A session on computing counterfactual explanations in Python 2) A session on evaluating a user-study.

Computing Counterfactuals in Python

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Analyzing a Simple Two-Group User Study

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How to cite

If you are using / referring to these materials in your own work, please cite

Kuhl, U., Artelt, A., Keane, M.T. (2025). (Really) Using Counterfactuals to Explain AI Systems: Fundamentals, Methods, & User Studies for XAI (Tutorial). 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25), Philadelphia, US (February).