US Patent Issued to Salesforce on July 21 for "Systems and methods for counterfactual explanation in machine learning models" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,441, issued on July 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for counterfactual explanation in machine learning models" was invented by Wenzhuo Yang (Singapore), Jia Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore) and Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a two-stage model-agnostic approach for generating counterfactual explanation via counterfactual feature selection and counterfactual feature optimization. Given a query instance, counterfactual feature selection picks a subset of feature columns and values that can potentially chan...