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)
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Authors
- 1. Kareem El Gebaly (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Parag Agrawal (Twitter)
- 3. Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo)
- 4. Flip Korn (Google)
- 5. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gebaly_vldb15,
title = {{Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes}},
author = {Gebaly, Kareem El and Agrawal, Parag and Golab, Lukasz and Korn, Flip and Srivastava, Divesh},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
pages = {61--72},
doi = {10.14778/2735461.2735467},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735461.2735467},
year = {2015}
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189 | Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00025840026 |
| 403 | Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.0001910396 |
| 1,031 | On Generating Near-Optimal Tableaux for Conditional Functional Dependencies | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00012405065 |
| 2,434 | The Generalized MDL Approach for Summarization | 2002 | VLDB | 8.4746361e-05 |
| 2,544 | Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration | 2003 | VLDB | 8.3179863e-05 |
| 4,282 | MDL Summarization with Holes | 2005 | VLDB | 6.6890966e-05 |
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