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Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach in Explainable AI (XAI), integrating
contrastive explanations with differential privacy in clustering methods. For
several basic clustering problems, including $k$-median and $k$-means, we give
efficient differential private contrastive explanations that achieve
essentially the same explanations as those that non-private clustering
explanations can obtain. We define contrastive explanations as the utility
difference between the original clustering utility and utility from clustering
with a specifically fixed centroid. In each contrastive scenario, we designate
a specific data point as the fixed centroid position, enabling us to measure
the impact of this constraint on clustering utility under differential privacy.
Extensive experiments across various datasets show our method's effectiveness
in providing meaningful explanations without significantly compromising data
privacy or clustering utility. This underscores our contribution to
privacy-aware machine learning, demonstrating the feasibility of achieving a
balance between privacy and utility in the explanation of clustering tasks.