From Database Repairs to Causality in Databases and Beyond
arXiv:2306.09374v14 citationsh-index: 35
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This work addresses the need for interpretable explanations in database systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing approaches by the author and collaborators.
The paper tackles the problem of explaining query answers in databases by using counterfactual reasoning for score specification and computation, presenting several examples to illustrate the flexibility of these methods.
We describe some recent approaches to score-based explanations for query answers in databases. The focus is on work done by the author and collaborators. Special emphasis is placed on the use of counterfactual reasoning for score specification and computation. Several examples that illustrate the flexibility of these methods are shown.