Benjamin Quost

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6ranked-venue papers in the field
1as first author
5since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-0456-9953ORCID · corroborated

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Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery · 3Other / Interdisciplinary · 3 (1 first)
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Counterfactual Explanations for Cautious Random Forests
abstract
Traditional machine learning models provide a single-class prediction for a given input instance. This may be inadequate in some scenarios, especially when the cost of erroneous predictions is high. Cautious random forests are cautious classification models that may output sets of possible classes as predictions when uncertainty is high, thus reducing the risk of making incorrect decisions. However, making such indeterminate predictions carries a cost, as resolving indeterminacy typically necessitates further analysis and manual intervention. This work focuses on explaining why an indeterminate prediction has been made and how indeterminacy can be resolved. To this end, we use counterfactual examples associated with determinate predictions. We propose a branch-and-bound algorithm that can efficiently generate proximal, plausible, and actionable counterfactual examples. Several experimental results are presented to demonstrate the advantages of our proposed method.
Haifei Zhang, Benjamin Quost, Marie-Hélène Masson
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data2
2025 Imposing Constraints in Probabilistic Circuits via Gradient Optimization
Soroush Ghandi, Benjamin Quost, Cassio P. de Campos
IDA2
2024 Geospatial Uncertainties: A Focus on Intervals and Spatial Models Based on Inverse Distance Weighting
Priscillia Labourg, Sébastien Destercke, Romain Guillaume, Jérémy Rohmer 0001, Benjamin Quost, Stéphane Belbèze
IPMU (1)5
2024 Probabilistic Circuits with Constraints via Convex Optimization
Soroush Ghandi, Benjamin Quost, Cassio P. de Campos
ECML/PKDD (3)2
2022 A Robust Bayesian Estimation Approach for the Imprecise Plackett-Luce Model
Tathagata Basu, Sébastien Destercke, Benjamin Quost
IPMU (1)3
2008 Refined classifier combination using belief functions
Benjamin Quost, Marie-Hélène Masson, Thierry Denoeux
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