2026· Journal of image processing and artificial intelligence· 0 citations
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XAI provides a powerful framework for responsible AI development, challenges such as the performance-interpretability trade-off, lack of standardized evaluation metrics, and potential for human misinterpretation remain areas of active research.
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This assessment paper emphasise about newb technology of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an emerging and vital field of research that addresses the "black box" problem prevalent in modern machine learning. As AI systems become more complex and integrated into high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and criminal justice, their inherent opacity raises critical concerns regarding transparency, trust, and accountability. The primary goal of XAI is to provide methods and techniques that enable human users to understand, interpret, and appropriately trust the decisions and predictions made by AI algorithms. While XAI provides a powerful framework for responsible AI development, challenges such as the performance-interpretability trade-off, lack of standardized evaluation metrics, and potential for human misinterpretation remain areas of active research. Ultimately, XAI is a critical step toward creating a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI, where intelligent systems operate not just with high performance but with ethical and transparent reasoning.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has become a key research focus nowadays due to the growing use of more intricate machine learning and deep learning systems in high-stakes systems. Although contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) methods show impressive prediction accuracy, the lack of transparency, a characteristic of their opaque (black-box) essence, presents serious forestalling issues in the areas of transparency, trust, accountability, and regulatory compliance. This interpretability is a disadvantage as numerous areas, like healthcare, finance, autonomous systems, and governance of the people, need AI systems to be applied in areas that are sensitive and require decision-making in a way that is comprehensible and explainable to human participants. XAI aims to solve these dilemmas by creating approaches and systems that allow human operators to comprehend, trust, and be able to handle AI-motivated decisions. XAI is not only aimed at providing explanations, but also at making these explanations meaningful, faithful to underlying model and applicable by various groups of users such as domain experts, developers, and policymakers. Enabling transparency, XAI leads to ethical AI, reduces bias and enhances debugging and model checking, and enables compliance with the developing regulatory frameworks like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This paper constitutes a thorough discussion of the XAI, as applied on transparent decision systems. It starts with a general introduction to motivation and the conceptualization of explainability in AI and goes on to provide a comprehensive literature review of model-specific and model-agnostic explainability algorithms. The suggested methodology combines both local and global explanatory approaches and transparency leadership framework. Experimental findings show the effectiveness of XAI techniques to enhance interpretability without causing a major loss in predictive accuracy. Lastly, the paper provides the practical implications, limitations, and research directions on the future of explainable and trustworthy AI systems.
Unknown authors· International Journal of App...· 0 citations
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized decision-making systems of today, allowing automated data analysis, intelligent prediction, and real-time decision-making in a variety of application areas, including healthcare, finance, transportation, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and public administration. While deep learning and other advanced machine learning techniques have been able to deliver impressive results, numerous AI models can be considered as ‘black-box’ models, meaning that they give very accurate predictions without actually offering understandable explanations for their decisions. This lack of transparency has generated a number of concerns about trust, accountability, fairness, ethical compliance, and regulatory acceptance. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is thus becoming an indispensable research field which aims to reconcile the predictive power and human interpretability. By explaining the reasoning behind AI system output, model importance, feature impact, and confidence scores, XAI helps users gain insights into how the system is working. This is done to build trust among stakeholders and promote responsible AI governance and decision-making. This paper offers a detailed overview of the concept of Explainable AI in contemporary decision-making processes, covering its theoretical underpinnings, its development, prominent explainability methods, implementation in practice, hurdles, and prospects. A methodology is advanced to embed explainability in the AI decision-making process, starting from data preprocessing to generating explanations and human evaluation. The paper also delves into the implications of explainability on decision quality, user trust, model reliability, and regulatory compliance. The results highlight the potential of explainability to enhance human comprehension and foster responsible use of AI systems in high-stakes decision-making scenarios.
Mahabala H.N· International Journal of Mod...· 0 citations
Through the application of Artificial intelligence (AI), there has been the establishment of the technology as a cornerstone in current decision systems in essential fields like health, finance, transport, industrial automation, and the governance of citizens. Although traditional AI and machine learning frameworks, specifically deep learning models, have shown outstanding predictive performance, their nature is not enlightened by default, and as such, they have cast considerable doubt on the issues of trust, accountability, fairness, and regulatory compliance. It is thanks to this limitation that Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) as a paradigm has emerged, aimed at ensuring that AI-driven decisions are easy to understand and interpret by the human stakeholders without major performance reduction. This paper is a thorough and stepwise analysis of how XAI was created in current decision systems. It starts with the historical contextualization of the development of AI, as an expert system driven by rules, to a data-driven black-box model and the increasing demand to explain decision-making processes. The paper provides a critical literature review of the current research on XAI methods classifying them into model-intrinsic and post-hoc methods of explanation, and discussing their relevance to various fields. An elaborate methodology is suggested, that incorporates explainability protocols into the AI choice channel, such as information pre-processing, model order, explanation creation and human-centered assessment. Additionally, the paper evaluates the experimental findings and case-based debates on how XAI enhances transparency, end-user trust, compliance with regulations, and system resilience. Popular explainability methods are also compared and evaluated including SHAP, LIME, saliency maps, and rule extraction. The results indicate that explainable models, in addition to increasing interpretability, can also help to improve debugging, bias detection and ethical AI deployment. The paper ends by recommending the current challenges, areas of open research, and future roles of XAI in the development of responsible and human-centered intelligent decision systems.
Meena Krishnan· International Journal of Mod...· 0 citations
It is concluded that explainability is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for trustworthy Al, and concrete directions for future research are outlined, including standardised benchmarks, human-centred evaluation, and explainability for large generative models.
Afna Ashraff M, Archana K, Buthaina Buthaina et al.· International Journal of Tec...· 0 citations
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has become a central methodology for developing transparent, accountable, and human-centered AI systems. As data-driven models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes and socially consequential settings, explanations are expected not only to illuminate model behavior but also to support validation, error analysis, fairness auditing, regulatory compliance, and effective human–AI collaboration. This Editorial introduces the Special Issue “Explainable Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Applications” and situates its contributions within the broader trajectory of XAI research. We briefly review major methodological families, including intrinsic interpretability, local surrogate and Shapley-value explanations, gradient- and perturbation-based visual attribution, counterfactual and causal explanations, and human-centered evaluation. We then highlight representative contributions in this Special Issue, which demonstrate how XAI is moving from generic explanation visualizations toward domain-sensitive, data-aware, and operationally reliable methods in network security, computer vision, knowledge graphs, and financial decision support. Finally, we discuss future directions, emphasizing faithful and plausible explanations, causal and multimodal reasoning, real-time and hardware-efficient deployment, trustworthy governance, and the emerging role of XAI in education.
Xuewen Sun, Lan Tian, Weidong Zhou et al.· Applied Sciences· 0 citations
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative technology across healthcare, finance, education, manufacturing, cybersecurity, transportation, and scientific research. Despite achieving remarkable predictive performance, many contemporary AI systems, particularly deep neural networks and ensemble learning models, operate as opaque "black-box" systems whose internal reasoning processes remain difficult for humans to interpret. This lack of transparency creates significant concerns regarding trustworthiness, accountability, fairness, robustness, legal compliance, and ethical deployment. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has consequently emerged as an interdisciplinary research domain that seeks to bridge the gap between complex computational intelligence and human understanding by providing transparent, interpretable, and verifiable explanations of AI decisions. While most existing studies emphasize algorithmic techniques and application-specific frameworks, comparatively less attention has been devoted to the rigorous mathematical principles that govern explainability. This paper presents a comprehensive examination of the mathematical foundations underlying Explainable Artificial Intelligence by integrating concepts from linear algebra, multivariable calculus, probability theory, statistics, optimization, information theory, graph theory, game theory, causal inference, topology, and computational geometry. The study demonstrates that explainability is fundamentally rooted in mathematical reasoning rather than solely dependent on visualization or heuristic interpretation. The paper further discusses the mathematical formulations of feature attribution methods, gradient-based explanations, surrogate modeling, Shapley values, counterfactual reasoning, and causal explainability. Additionally, it explores how optimization and information-theoretic measures contribute to balancing predictive accuracy with interpretability. The discussion highlights emerging mathematical challenges associated with large language models, multimodal AI, graph neural networks, and foundation models, emphasizing the need for mathematically principled frameworks capable of providing faithful and robust explanations. The paper concludes that future progress in trustworthy AI will rely increasingly on deeper integration between mathematical sciences and explainability research, enabling transparent AI systems that satisfy scientific, ethical, and regulatory expectations.
M.Indhumathi· Stanzaleaf International Jou...· 0 citations
