This repository contains the implementation of the work The Importance of Time in Causal Algorithmic Recourse in which we motivate the need to integrate the temporal dimension into causal algorithmic recourse methods to enhance recommendations’ plausibility and reliability.

Use the following Jupyter Notebook to reproduce the results presented in the paper:

• TIME-CAR

The code requires a python version >=3.9, as well as some libraries listed in requirements file. For some additional functionalities, more libraries are needed for these extra functions and options to become available.

git clone https://github.com/marti5ini/time-car.git
cd time-car

Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt, a virtual environment is advised:

python3 -m venv ./venv # optional but recommended
pip install -r requirements.txt

If you use time-car in your research, please cite our paper:

@article{beretta2023importance,
  title={The Importance of Time in Causal Algorithmic Recourse},
  author={Beretta, Isacco and Cinquini, Martina},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05082},
  year={2023}
}