FairXCluster

Counterfactuals for Clustering: Explainability, Fairness, and Quality

Demos

Publications

Antonia Karra, Georgios Vardakas, Evaggelia Pitoura and Aristidis Likas. "Generating counterfactual explanations for clustering models based on their equivalence to classification models." International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 2025 (to appear)

John Pavlopoulos, Georgios Vardakas and Aristidis Likas. "Revisiting Silhouette Aggregation." International Conference on Discovery Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. (Best Paper Runner-up)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78977-9_23

Georgios Vardakas, Antonia Karra, Evaggelia Pitoura and Aristidis Likas. "Counterfactual Explanations for k-means and Gaussian Clustering." arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10234, 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.10234

Deliverables

Number	Name	WP	Type	Dissem. Level	Due Date (in months)
D4.1	Project web page and LinkedIn account	WP4	Other	PU	M3
D1.1	State-of-the-art on counterfactual explanations	WP1	R	PU	M4
D1.2	Counterfactual-based explanations in traditional and deep clustering	WP1	R	PU	M12
D4.2	Poster/video on the interim research results of the FairXCluster project	WP4	DEC	PU	M12
D5.1	Interim report	WP5	R	PU	M12
D2.1	State-of-the-art on fair clustering	WP2	R	PU	M14
D3.1	State-of-the-art on clustering quality indices	WP3	R	PU	M14
D4.3	Scientific publication on counterfactual-based clustering	WP4	DEC	PU	M16
D4.4	Poster/video on the research results of the FairXCluster project	WP4	DEC	PU	M20
D4.5	Scientific publication on counterfactual-based fairness in clustering	WP4	DEC	PU	M22
D4.6	Scientific publication on counterfactual-based cluster quality indices	WP4	DEC	PU	M22
D2.2	Counterfactual fairness for clustering	WP2	R	PU	M24
D3.2	Counterfactuals for clustering quality	WP3	R	PU	M24
D4.7	Open-source code of the FairXCluster project	WP4	DEM	PU	M24
D5.2	Final report	WP5	R	PU	M24

Funding

The research project is implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I. call "Basic research Financing (Horizontal support of all Sciences)" under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan "Greece 2.0" funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU (H.F.R.I. ProjectNumber: 15940)