Publikation
Causal Explanations Over Time: Articulated Reasoning for Interactive Environments
Sebastian Rödling; Matej Zecevic; Devendra Singh Dhami; Kristian Kersting
In: Computing Research Repository eprint Journal (CoRR), Vol. abs/2506.03915, Pages 1-20, Computing Research Repository, 2025.
Zusammenfassung
Structural Causal Explanations (SCEs) can be used to automatically generate
explanations in natural language to questions about given data that are grounded
in a (possibly learned) causal model. Unfortunately they work for small data
only. In turn they are not attractive to offer reasons for events, e.g., tracking
causal changes over multiple time steps, or a behavioral component that involves
feedback loops through actions of an agent. To this end, we generalize SCEs to a
(recursive) formulation of explanation trees to capture the temporal interactions
between reasons. We show the benefits of this more general SCE algorithm on
synthetic time-series data and a 2D grid game, and further compare it to the base
SCE and other existing methods for causal explanations.