Optimized Instance Alteration for Explaining and Assessing Robustness of Classifiers

arXiv:2607.06637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we propose a unified approach for diagnosing misclassification and assessing the robustness of black-box classifiers. Central to our method is an optimization framework that modifies an instance so that the classifier predicts a specified target label, while ensuring that the modification remains easily explainable. The objective function contains two components: an explainability-aware $L_0$ (XA-$L_0$) penalty that promotes sparse an...