The Cost of Following the Herd
TL;DR for operators A recourse recommendation must do more than identify a profile that an automated decision system would approve. It should describe changes a person can realistically make. In Follow the Herd: A Data-Driven Approach for Actionable Recourse, Nishtha Madaan and Srikanta Bedathur propose Data-Driven Action Recourse (DDAR), which learns likely changes from historical trajectories instead of requiring manually specified action costs during recommendation generation.1 ...