arXiv AI

On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy

arXiv:2510. 12201v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI becomes more common in everyday living, there is an increasing demand for intelligent systems that are both performant and understandable.

arXiv AI
Sep 11

XAI-Arena: Can LLMs Assess the Quality of XAI Explanations?

XAI-Arena proposes using large language models (LLMs) as judges to evaluate the quality of explainable AI (XAI) explanations, aiming for reproducibility, scalability, and multidimensional assessment. The framework assesses dimensions such as simplicity, clarity, task adequacy, trust calibration, actionability, transparency, faithfulness, and overall interpretability across different datasets, models, and stakeholder personas. Human validation shows a strong positive correlation between LLM-generated and human ratings (Spearman's rho = .693, p < .001), supporting the viability of LLM-based evaluations.

By Yanfei Hu Fleischhauer, Alona Zharova, Nadja Klein, Stefan Feuerriegel
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Towards a Unified Multidimensional Explainability Metric: Evaluating Trustworthiness in AI Models

arXiv:2607. 14315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for assessing the explainability of various XAI methods, such as LIME and SHAP, across multiple datasets and machine learning models, with the ultimate goal of creating a unified multidimensional explainability score.

By Georgios Makridis, Georgios Fatouros, Athanasios Kiourtis, Dimitrios Kotios, Vasileios Koukos, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Jonh Soldatos
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Every Eval Ever: A Unifying Schema and Community Repository for AI Evaluation Results

arXiv:2606. 14516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI evaluations are widely used for testing and understanding progress.

By Jan Batzner, Sree Harsha Nelaturu, Anastassia Kornilova, Jon Crall, Tommaso Cerruti, Yanan Long, Yifan Mai, Sanchit Ahuja, Asaf Yehudai, Marek \v{S}uppa, John P. Lalor, Oluwagbemike Olowe, Jatin Ganhotra, Brian H. Hu, Eliya Habba, Andrew M. Bean, Chang Liu, Sander Land, Steven Dillmann, Aniketh Garikaparthi, Elron Bandel, Saki Imai, James Edgell, Wm. Matthew Kennedy, Jenny Chim, Patrick Meusling, Asteria Kaeberlein, Venkata Ramachandra Karthik Chundi, Manasi Patwardhan, Martin Ku, Austin Meek, Leon Knauer, Brian Wingenroth, Srishti Yadav, Usman Gohar, Felix Friedrich, Michelle Lin, Jennifer Mickel, Arman Cohan, Stella Biderman, Irene Solaiman, Zeerak Talat, Anka Reuel, Mubashara Akhtar, Gjergji Kasneci, Avijit Ghosh, Leshem Choshen
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Position: Explainability Research Must Prioritize Foundations over Ad-hoc Methods

arXiv:2607. 14123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the proliferation of Explainable AI (XAI) techniques -- from feature attributions to sparse autoencoders -- explanations rarely influence real-world workflows.

By Michal Moshkovitz, Suraj Srinivas, Lesia Semenova, Nave Frost, Cyrus Rashtchian, Valentyn Boreiko, Shichang Zhang, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Cynthia Rudin, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Human-AI Coordination Zones: A Framework for Designing Human-in-the-Loop Experiences with Agentic AI

arXiv:2606. 09848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative and agentic AI becomes embedded in everyday products, practitioners face a persistent challenge: how to design human-AI coordination -- the ongoing mutual adjustment between users and AI systems as mediate through interfaces-that supports usability, trust, and safety.

By James Pierce, Vaiva Kalnikait\.e, Siddharth Gupta, Brian Granger
arXiv AI
6d ago

Toward AI-Augmented Cooperative Engineering Workflows: Requirements and Architecture the European Rover Challenge

The paper explores how Artificial Intelligence can enhance cooperative engineering workflows, focusing on the European Rover Challenge where student teams design complex rover systems under tight deadlines. A 40‑question survey of 14 teams revealed common bottlenecks such as poor documentation, unclear requirements, fragmented communication, informal task monitoring, and significant integration rework. Based on these findings, the authors propose requirements for AI‑augmented workflows and outline an assistant system architecture that integrates user interfaces, credential management, service selection, specialized AI services, and external engineering tools to support task clarification, requirement compliance, communication summarization, integration risk detection, and continuous knowledge capture.

By Ahmed R. Sadik, Frank Joublin, Mariusz Bujny, Antonello Ceravola, Joan Smith
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Tasks

PersonaMem-v3 is a benchmark and evaluation harness designed to assess omni-platform personal intelligence for AI agents. It is built from over one million anonymized real-world engagement histories, covering social media, chatbots, calendars, and AI companions, and tracks user preferences and habits over time. The benchmark tests agents on personalization, LLM-powered recommendation, proactiveness, agentic tool use, and geo-temporal reasoning, evaluating their ability to infer holistic user understanding, personalize responses, rerank recommendations, follow user steering, and avoid inappropriate personalization.

By Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Zhuoqun Hao, Yuchen Liu, Maohao Shen, Sihao Chen, Gregory Wornell, Chris Callison-Burch, Lyle Ungar, Dan Roth, Qi Guo, Xiangjun Fan, Camillo J. Taylor, Hanchao Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

How to Ask the AI: A User Perspective Survey for Large Language Model Prompting

arXiv:2608. 07494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), allow users to obtain instant and effective content responses simply by typing requests, such as ``plan a three-day Vienna trip'', ``solve the attached mathematical problem'', ``draft an email to inquire review progress'', etc.

By Yiqun Zhang, Yunfan Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Sen Feng, Yiu-ming Cheung
arXiv AI
6d ago

A Synthetic Ground-Truth Framework for the Evaluation of Explainable AI Methods

The paper introduces a synthetic ground‑truth framework for evaluating explainable AI (XAI) methods, addressing the lack of reliable evaluation procedures. By using controlled interventions to create datasets where the importance of input components is known, the framework generates ground‑truth explanations that align with the model’s actual decision process. The authors apply this approach to binary images, tabular data, and time series, and find that nine popular XAI methods exhibit significant limitations, underscoring the need for intervention‑based benchmarks.

By Miquel Mir\'o-Nicolau, Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti