Plausible Counterfactual Explanations of Recommendations

Jakub Černý, Jiří Němeček, Ivan Dovica, Jakub Mareček
7/10/2025
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Abstract

Explanations play a variety of roles in various recommender systems, from a legally mandated afterthought, through an integral element of user experience, to a key to persuasiveness. A natural and useful form of an explanation is the Counterfactual Explanation (CE). We present a method for generating highly plausible CEs in recommender systems and evaluate it both numerically and with a user study.

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@article{ern2025plausible,
  title  = {Plausible Counterfactual Explanations of Recommendations},
  author = {Jakub Černý and Jiří Němeček and Ivan Dovica and Jakub Mareček},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2507.07919},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07919v1}
}

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