Reviews: CXPlain: Causal Explanations for Model Interpretation under Uncertainty

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Most of the responses were quite clarifying (esp. in regards to noting that there is a separate Omega for each x!) and I'll increase my score from a (4) to a (5). I still think much more clarity is needed in describing the methodology, the overall goal, and defining carefully what they mean by "causal." Other referees noted that the interest in this paper is Granger causality and not in understanding what might have happened under intervention (the authors mention this as well in their response, noting that "our goal is not to estimate what would happen if a particular feature's value changed"). In the present form, I worry that most readers will think the paper is about this second notion and get quite confused. They do this by framing the question causally: i.e. identify which inputs causally affect the outputs of a machine learning model.