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Explaining a scholarship model's decision
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A foundation uses a deep neural network to rank applications for a scholarship. It was trained on thousands of past applications and uses about 200 inputs for each one. A student who was turned down asks why.
(a) Explain why it is hard to explain this model's decision for one applicant. [2]
(b) Explain what a counterfactual explanation is, and how one could help this student. [2]
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