FACET: Robust Counterfactual Explanation Analytics
Summary: FACET is an explanation analytics system for counterfactuals of tree ensembles. It introduces counterfactual regions—robust, outcome-guaranteeing feature ranges—and a compact, high-dimensional index with index-aware queries for near real-time analytics; evaluated on eight datasets, it matches quality with an order-of-magnitude speedup and improves user understanding. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Peter M. VanNostrand (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
- 2. Huayi Zhang (ByteDance; Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
- 3. Dennis M. Hofmann (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
- 4. Elke A. Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vannostrand_sigmod23,
title = {{FACET: Robust Counterfactual Explanation Analytics}},
author = {VanNostrand, Peter M. and Zhang, Huayi and Hofmann, Dennis M. and Rundensteiner, Elke A.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3626729},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626729},
year = {2023}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,263 | Local Stability of Rankings | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,725 | Locator: Local Stability for Rankings | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,219 | MetaStore: Analyzing Deep Learning Meta-Data at Scale | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,313 | Counterfactual Explanation Analytics: Empowering Lay Users to Take Action Against Consequential Automated Decisions | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.001157935 |
| 85 | The X-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00035405879 |
| 329 | Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree Using Fractals | 1994 | VLDB | 0.00021068647 |
| 332 | Query-Aware Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00020920444 |
| 3,000 | Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.8677069e-05 |
| 4,571 | GeCo: Quality Counterfactual Explanations in Real Time | 2021 | VLDB | 6.625099e-05 |
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