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Main Authors: Zhou, Ryan, Bacardit, Jaume, Brownlee, Alexander, Cagnoni, Stefano, Fyvie, Martin, Iacca, Giovanni, McCall, John, van Stein, Niki, Walker, David, Hu, Ting
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07811
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author Zhou, Ryan
Bacardit, Jaume
Brownlee, Alexander
Cagnoni, Stefano
Fyvie, Martin
Iacca, Giovanni
McCall, John
van Stein, Niki
Walker, David
Hu, Ting
author_facet Zhou, Ryan
Bacardit, Jaume
Brownlee, Alexander
Cagnoni, Stefano
Fyvie, Martin
Iacca, Giovanni
McCall, John
van Stein, Niki
Walker, David
Hu, Ting
contents Artificial intelligence methods are being increasingly applied across various domains, but their often opaque nature has raised concerns about accountability and trust. In response, the field of explainable AI (XAI) has emerged to address the need for human-understandable AI systems. Evolutionary computation (EC), a family of powerful optimization and learning algorithms, offers significant potential to contribute to XAI, and vice versa. This paper provides an introduction to XAI and reviews current techniques for explaining machine learning models. We then explore how EC can be leveraged in XAI and examine existing XAI approaches that incorporate EC techniques. Furthermore, we discuss the application of XAI principles within EC itself, investigating how these principles can illuminate the behavior and outcomes of EC algorithms, their (automatic) configuration, and the underlying problem landscapes they optimize. Finally, we discuss open challenges in XAI and highlight opportunities for future research at the intersection of XAI and EC. Our goal is to demonstrate EC's suitability for addressing current explainability challenges and to encourage further exploration of these methods, ultimately contributing to the development of more understandable and trustworthy ML models and EC algorithms.
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spellingShingle Evolutionary Computation and Explainable AI: A Roadmap to Understandable Intelligent Systems
Zhou, Ryan
Bacardit, Jaume
Brownlee, Alexander
Cagnoni, Stefano
Fyvie, Martin
Iacca, Giovanni
McCall, John
van Stein, Niki
Walker, David
Hu, Ting
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence methods are being increasingly applied across various domains, but their often opaque nature has raised concerns about accountability and trust. In response, the field of explainable AI (XAI) has emerged to address the need for human-understandable AI systems. Evolutionary computation (EC), a family of powerful optimization and learning algorithms, offers significant potential to contribute to XAI, and vice versa. This paper provides an introduction to XAI and reviews current techniques for explaining machine learning models. We then explore how EC can be leveraged in XAI and examine existing XAI approaches that incorporate EC techniques. Furthermore, we discuss the application of XAI principles within EC itself, investigating how these principles can illuminate the behavior and outcomes of EC algorithms, their (automatic) configuration, and the underlying problem landscapes they optimize. Finally, we discuss open challenges in XAI and highlight opportunities for future research at the intersection of XAI and EC. Our goal is to demonstrate EC's suitability for addressing current explainability challenges and to encourage further exploration of these methods, ultimately contributing to the development of more understandable and trustworthy ML models and EC algorithms.
title Evolutionary Computation and Explainable AI: A Roadmap to Understandable Intelligent Systems
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07811