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Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes

Summary: Problem: multi-dimensional data with a binary outcome; build interpretable explanation tables that summarize which dimension-value combinations affect the outcome. Approach: sampling-based heuristics plus efficient information-content estimation, addressing hardness of optimal explanations and showing empirical gains over related methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11172
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00014096312
Overall Rank
1,099 | 92.36%
DOI
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