Explanations based on the Missing: Towards Contrastive Explanations with Pertinent Negatives

Amit Dhurandhar, Pin-Yu Chen, Ronny Luss, Chun-Chen Tu, Paishun Ting, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Payel Das

Nov-18-2025, 16:39:35 GMT–Neural Information Processing Systems 

We argue that such explanations are natural for humans and are used commonly in domains such as health care and criminology.