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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) focuses on helping humans understand the working of AI systems or their decisions and has been a cornerstone of AI for decades. Recent research in explainability has focused on explaining the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Shruthi Chari

As AI becomes more common in everyday living, there is an increasing demand for intelligent systems that are both performant and understandable. Explainable AI (XAI) systems aim to provide comprehensible explanations of decisions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Aline Mangold , Juliane Zietz , Susanne Weinhold , Sebastian Pannasch

The ability to explain complex information from chart images is vital for effective data-driven decision-making. In this work, we address the challenge of generating detailed explanations alongside answering questions about charts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Shamanthak Hegde , Pooyan Fazli , Hasti Seifi

Explainable AI (XAI) aims to improve user understanding and decisions when using AI models. However, despite innovations in XAI, recent user evaluations reveal that this goal remains elusive. Understanding human cognition can help explain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Louth Bin Rawshan , Zhuoyu Wang , Brian Y. Lim

More recently, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) research has shifted to focus on a more pragmatic or naturalistic account of understanding, that is, whether the stakeholders understand the explanation. This point is especially…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Janet Hui-wen Hsiao , Hilary Hei Ting Ngai , Luyu Qiu , Yi Yang , Caleb Chen Cao

As AI becomes an integral part of our lives, the development of explainable AI, embodied in the decision-making process of an AI or robotic agent, becomes imperative. For a robotic teammate, the ability to generate explanations to justify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Ze Gong , Nikhillesh Sadassivam , Yu Zhang

Clear and effective explanations are essential for human understanding and knowledge dissemination. The scope of scientific research aiming to understand the essence of explanations has recently expanded from the social sciences to machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Giacomo Magnifico , Eduard Barbu

Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved visual quality inspection and predictive maintenance within industrial settings. However, deploying these technologies on low-resource edge devices poses substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Phuc Truong Loc Nguyen , Hung Cao

As the permeability of AI systems in interpersonal domains like the home expands, their technical capabilities of generating explanations are required to be aligned with user expectations for transparency and reasoning. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Niharika Mathur , Tamara Zubatiy , Elizabeth Mynatt

Explanations are crucial for building trustworthy AI systems, but a gap often exists between the explanations provided by models and those needed by users. To address this gap, we introduce MetaExplainer, a neuro-symbolic framework designed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shruthi Chari , Oshani Seneviratne , Prithwish Chakraborty , Pablo Meyer , Deborah L. McGuinness

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in areas that significantly impact human lives, concerns about fairness and transparency have grown, especially regarding their impact on protected groups. Recently, the intersection of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Vasiliki Papanikou , Danae Pla Karidi , Evaggelia Pitoura , Emmanouil Panagiotou , Eirini Ntoutsi

Explainable AI (XAI) in high-stakes domains should help stakeholders trust and verify system outputs. Yet Chain-of-Thought methods reason before concluding, and logical gaps or hallucinations can yield conclusions that do not reliably align…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Qian , Yimeng Wang , Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu , Andreas Stathopoulos

The most common methods in explainable artificial intelligence are post-hoc techniques which identify the most relevant features used by pretrained opaque models. Some of the most advanced post hoc methods can generate explanations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Stefano Fioravanti , Francesco Giannini , Paolo Frazzetto , Fabio Zanasi , Pietro Barbiero

Explainability is a critical factor in enhancing the trustworthiness and acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, where decisions directly impact patient outcomes. Despite advancements in AI interpretability, clear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Michail Mamalakis , Héloïse de Vareilles , Graham Murray , Pietro Lio , John Suckling

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has re-emerged in response to the development of modern AI and ML systems. These systems are complex and sometimes biased, but they nevertheless make decisions that impact our lives. XAI systems are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Shane T. Mueller , Elizabeth S. Veinott , Robert R. Hoffman , Gary Klein , Lamia Alam , Tauseef Mamun , William J. Clancey

The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and public policy has raised concerns about the transparency of automated decisions. Explainable AI (XAI) addresses this by clarifying how models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Natalia Abarca , Andrés Carvallo , Claudia López Moncada , Felipe Bravo-Marquez

As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across various population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jessica Dai , Sohini Upadhyay , Ulrich Aivodji , Stephen H. Bach , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Despite the wide use of explainability techniques to attempt to understand the behavior of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the generated explanations may not always be reliable. An explanation can appear plausible to humans but fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tomás Pereira , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

A core assumption of Explainable AI (XAI) is that explanations are useful to users -- that is, users will do something with the explanations. Prior work, however, does not clearly connect the information provided in explanations to user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gennie Mansi , Julia Kim , Mark Riedl

We often see the term explainable in the titles of papers that describe applications based on artificial intelligence (AI). However, the literature in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) indicates that explanations in XAI are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mallika Mainali , Rosina O Weber