explainability
Also known as: AI explainability
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Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends arxiv.org Nov 7, 2024 9 facts
perspectiveThe authors of 'Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends' argue that explainability in neuro-symbolic AI must be considered during the design phase rather than as an afterthought, as current models still do not meet the requirements for application in critical fields.
claimExplainability requirements for Neuro-Symbolic AI consist of two components: process transparency and result transparency.
claimImproving the explainability of neuro-symbolic systems remains a significant future challenge, as only a small number of studies have achieved medium to high explainability.
referenceDavid A. Broniatowski and colleagues authored a 2021 technical report for NIST titled 'Psychological foundations of explainability and interpretability in artificial intelligence'.
claimUtilizing a unified representation for neural networks and symbolic logic can improve explainability by creating semantic overlap between the two systems.
claimExplainability and understandability play different but complementary roles in making machine learning systems transparent and trustworthy to users.
referenceMark Fedyk and Monika Ray proposed using machine learning interpretability and explainability techniques to generate hypotheses in cognitive psychology in 2023.
claimThe representation space in neuro-symbolic AI determines the technical foundation, the feasibility of achieving explainability and transparency, and the overall impact on ethics and society.
claimExplainability in Neuro-Symbolic AI requires a relatively stable concept to be convincing.
Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends arxiv.org Nov 7, 2024 4 facts
claimThe paper 'Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends' identifies three significant challenges in neuro-symbolic AI: unified representations, explainability and transparency, and sufficient cooperation between neural networks and symbolic learning.
referenceThe paper 'Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends' proposes a classification system for explainability in neuro-symbolic AI that evaluates both model design and behavior across 191 studies published in 2013.
claimExplainability is a limiting factor for the application of neural networks in many vital fields.
referenceThe authors of 'Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends' classify neuro-symbolic AI explainability into five categories: implicit intermediate representations and implicit prediction, partially explicit intermediate representations and partially explicit prediction, explicit intermediate representations or explicit prediction, explicit intermediate representation and explicit prediction, and unified representation and explicit prediction.
Building Trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems - arXiv arxiv.org 4 facts
claimGroundedness serves as the foundation for both explainability and safety in AI systems, as a lack of grounding in provided instructions can lead to unintended consequences.
claimThe authors of the paper 'Building Trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems' argue that NeuroSymbolic AI is better suited for creating trusted AI systems than statistical or symbolic AI methods used in isolation, because trust requires consistency, reliability, explainability, and safety.
referenceLakkaraju et al. (2022) authored 'Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner’s Perspective', published as arXiv:2202.01875.
referenceSarkar et al. (2023) reviewed the explainability and safety of conversational agents used in mental health contexts to identify potential improvements.
A Comprehensive Review of Neuro-symbolic AI for Robustness ... link.springer.com Dec 9, 2025 3 facts
claimA primary driver for the integration of neural and symbolic AI is the quest for explainability, as neural networks are often criticized as 'black boxes' with internal decision processes that are difficult to interpret and debug, whereas symbolic representations allow for explicit explanations and traceable decision paths.
referenceGaur, M. and Sheth, A. outlined the requirements for building trustworthy neuro-symbolic AI systems, specifically focusing on consistency, reliability, explainability, and safety.
referenceZhang, X. and Sheng, V.S. authored a 2024 arXiv preprint (arXiv:2411.04383) that examines explainability, challenges, and future trends in neuro-symbolic AI.
Practices, opportunities and challenges in the fusion of knowledge ... frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimCollaborative Knowledge Graph and Large Language Model systems operating in interactive environments require explainability, trustworthiness, cognitive alignment, and traceability.
claimThe probabilistic nature of Large Language Models (LLMs) creates fundamental explainability barriers in knowledge graph reasoning tasks.
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claimNeuro-Symbolic systems are capable of explaining their outputs, grounding language in real-world domains, and operating with significantly less data compared to black-box models.
Call for Papers: KR meets Machine Learning and Explanation kr.org 1 fact
claimThe KR 2026 special track 'KR meets Machine Learning and Explanation' invites research on explainability, including KR-driven Explainable AI, interpretable ML models intertwined with KR, theoretical frameworks for explainability, evaluation protocols for explanations, and interactive explanation frameworks.
Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Hybrid Future of Intelligent Systems - LinkedIn linkedin.com Aug 26, 2025 1 fact
claimNeuro-symbolic AI is a hybrid approach that combines the learning capabilities of neural networks with the reasoning and explainability of symbolic systems.
Combining large language models with enterprise knowledge graphs frontiersin.org Aug 26, 2024 1 fact
perspectiveAI solutions should be accompanied by a high degree of explainability, robustness, and precision to ensure that enrichment systems are transparent and reliable.
Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Jun 14, 2024 1 fact
referenceJocelyn Maclure authored the paper 'AI, explainability and public reason: The argument from the limitations of the human mind', published in Minds and Machines in 2021.
How Enterprise AI, powered by Knowledge Graphs, is ... blog.metaphacts.com Oct 7, 2025 1 fact
claimKnowledge Graph-powered AI systems provide explainability by including a clear audit trail, allowing users to trace an AI-generated response back to the specific data sources that contributed to the conclusion.
Knowledge Graphs and GenAI: When the Complexity Is Worth It medium.com Oct 1, 2025 1 fact
claimKnowledge graphs excel at multi-hop reasoning and explainability.
How NebulaGraph Fusion GraphRAG Bridges the Gap Between ... nebula-graph.io Jan 27, 2026 1 fact
claimGraphRAG improves contextual relevance, enables multi-hop reasoning, and provides inherent explainability by allowing conclusions to be traced back through a path of nodes and relationships.
Knowledge Graphs vs RAG: When to Use Each for AI in 2026 - Atlan atlan.com Feb 12, 2026 1 fact
claimKnowledge graphs provide explainability through clear reasoning chains showing relationship paths, while RAG systems provide opaque similarity scores that are difficult to explain.
Building Better Agentic Systems with Neuro-Symbolic AI cutter.com Dec 10, 2025 1 fact
claimSymbolic AI systems offer strengths including precision through strict logic and constraints, tailorable expertise via explicit rules and domain knowledge, explainability through traceable decision-making rules, and reliability because they do not hallucinate due to their reliance on explicitly defined rules.
Large Language Models Meet Knowledge Graphs for Question ... arxiv.org Sep 22, 2025 1 fact
claimThe combination of knowledge fusion, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, and ranking-based refinement accelerates complex question decomposition for multi-hop Question Answering, enhances context understanding for conversational Question Answering, facilitates cross-modal interactions for multi-modal Question Answering, and improves the explainability of generated answers.
Context Graph vs Knowledge Graph: Key Differences for AI - Atlan atlan.com Jan 27, 2026 1 fact
claimContext graphs are required for AI-native operations where systems must act autonomously, enforce data governance programmatically, handle decisions dependent on precedent or exceptions, manage temporal context, or provide explainability through traceable reasoning paths.
Papers - Dr Vaishak Belle vaishakbelle.github.io 1 fact
referenceVaishak Belle and P. Barcelo authored the paper 'A Uniform Language for Safety, Robustness and Explainability', published in JELIA in 2025.
Building trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems: Consistency ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com Feb 14, 2024 1 fact
referenceThe CREST framework, introduced in the paper 'Building trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems: Consistency...', demonstrates how Consistency, Reliability, user-level Explainability, and Safety are built on NeuroSymbolic methods.
[PDF] Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends arxiv.org Nov 7, 2024 1 fact
claimThe lack of explainability is a primary factor limiting the deployment of neural networks in critical domains.
Designing Knowledge Graphs for AI Reasoning, Not Guesswork linkedin.com Jan 14, 2026 1 fact
claimTrue AI explainability begins upstream at the source systems, transformations, business rules, and ownership behind the data, rather than at the algorithm level.
Medical Hallucination in Foundation Models and Their ... medrxiv.org Mar 3, 2025 1 fact
claimSurvey respondents prioritized enhancing accuracy (12 mentions), explainability (10), ethical considerations including bias reduction and privacy (8), integration with existing tools (7), and improving speed and efficiency (3) as future priorities for AI improvement.
Neural-Symbolic AI: The Next Breakthrough in Reliable and ... hu.ac.ae Dec 29, 2025 1 fact
claimArtificial intelligence has faced persistent challenges regarding transparency and explainability despite significant improvements in the field over the last decade.
Call for Papers: Special Session on KR and Machine Learning kr.org 1 fact
claimThe success of Machine Learning systems has highlighted issues like explainability, bias, and fairness, which encourages the integration of symbolic or interpretable representations into AI systems.
LLM Hallucinations: Causes, Consequences, Prevention - LLMs llmmodels.org May 10, 2024 1 fact
procedureStrategies to prevent and mitigate LLM hallucinations include improving training data quality, developing context-aware algorithms, implementing human oversight, and promoting transparency and explainability.