Back to the Feature: Explaining Video Classifiers with Video Counterfactual Explanations

ArXi:2511.20295v2 Announce Type: replace Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) are minimal and semantically meaningful modifications of the input of a model that alter the model predictions. They highlight the decisive features the model relies on, providing contrastive interpretations for classifiers. State-of-the-art visual counterfactual explanation methods have primarily focused on interpreting image classifiers, leaving the domain of video models relatively underexplored.