US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 25 for "Generating counterfactual samples based on user preference" (New York, Massachusetts, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,146, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Generating counterfactual samples based on user preference" was invented by Samuel Sharpe (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Bayan Bruss (Washington) and Brian Barr (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computing system may aggregating multiple counterfactual samples so that machine learning explanations can be generated for sub-populations. In addition, methods and systems described herein use machine learning and counterfactual samples to determine text to use in an explanation for a model's prediction. A computing system ma...