Explainable AI

2026

Gennie Mansi, Julia Kim, Michael Rosenbloom, and Mark Riedl
Drawing Out Legal Risks: Co-Designing with Lawyers to Predict and Manage Legal Uncertainties of Medical AI Tools
arXiv:2606.30828 (2026).
arXiv bibtexExplainable AIHealthcarePolicy and Law

Madhuri Singh, Grace C. Kim, Mika Okomoto, Aarushi Ammavajjala, Amal Alabdulkarim, Genni Mansi, and Mark O. Riedl
Counterfactual Explanations for Agentic Workflows
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2026).
zenodo Workshop bibtexAgentsExplainable AI

Mika Okamoto, Ansel Kaplan Erol, and Mark Riedl
Explainable Model Routing for Agentic Workflows
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2026).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgentsExplainable AI

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Evaluating Actionability in Explainable AI
Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (2026).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

2025

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Understanding the Impact of Physicians' Legal Considerations on XAI Systems
arXiv:2507.15996 (2025).
arXiv bibtexExplainable AIHealthcarePolicy and Law

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Implications of Current Litigation on the Design of AI Systems for Healthcare Delivery
arXiv:2507.15981 (2025).
arXiv bibtexExplainable AIHealthcarePolicy and Law

Maduri Singh, Amal Alabdulkarim, Gennie Mansi, and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents Using World Models
Proceedings of the 2025 IJCAI Workshop on Explainable AI (2025).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgentsExplainable AIReinforcement Learning

Gennie Mansi, Naveena Karusala, and Riedl Mark O.
Legally-Informed Explainable AI
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2025).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AIPolicy and Law

Amal Alabdulkarim, Madhuri Singh, Gennie Mansi, Kaely Hall, and Mark O. Riedl
Experiential Explanations for Reinforcement Learning
Neural Computing and Applications 37 (2025).
arXiv Journal bibtexAgentsExplainable AIReinforcement Learning

2024

Gennie Mansi and Mark Riedl
Recognizing Lawyers as AI Creators and Intermediaries in Contestability
Proceedings of the CSCW 2024 Workshop: From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AIPolicy and Law

Kenneth Eaton, Jonathan Balloch, Julia Kim, and Mark Riedl
The Interpretability of Codebooks in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning is Limited
Proceedings of the 2024 Reinforcement Learning Conference Workshop I Can't Believe It's not Better (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexAgentsExplainable AIInterpretabilityReinforcement Learning

Upon Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable AI Reloaded: Challenging the XAI Status Quo in the Era of Large Language Models
Proceedings of the ACM 2024 Halfway to the Future Symposium (2024).
Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Recognizing Lawyers as AI Creators and Intermediaries in Contestability
Proceedings of the CSCW Workshop From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AIPolicy and Law

Upon Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable AI Reloaded: Challenging the XAI Status Quo in the Era of Large Language Models
Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Qingzi Vera Liao, Samir Passi, Mark O. Riedl, and Hal Daum'e
Seamful XAI: Operationalizing Seamful Design in Explainable AI
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Samir Passi, Q. Vera Liao, Larry Chan, I-Hsiang Lee, Michael Muller, and Mark O. Riedl
The Who in Explainable AI: How AI Background Shapes Perceptions of AI Explanations
Proceedings of CHI 2024 (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

2023

Upol Ehsan, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Mark O. Riedl
Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in Explainable AI: A Framework to Address the Gap in XAI
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (2023).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Gennie Mansi and Mark O. Riedl
Why Don't You Do Something About It? Outlining Connections between AI Explanations and User Actions
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (2023).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

2022

Xiangyu Peng, Mark O. Riedl, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Inherently Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language
Proceedings of NeurIPS 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive StoriesAgentsExplainable AIInterpretabilityReinforcement Learning

Kaige Xie, Sarah Wiegreffe, and Mark Riedl
Calibrating Trust of Multi-Hop Question Answering Systems with Decompositional Probes
Findings of EMNLP 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language ModelsExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Social Construction of XAI: Do We Need One Definition to Rule Them All?
Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Human-Centered AI (2022).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

Xiangyu Peng, Mark O. Riedl, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Inherently Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language
Proceedings of the 2022 Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexInteractive StoriesAgentsExplainable AIInterpretabilityReinforcement Learning

2021

Sarah Wiegreffe, Jack Hessel, Swabha Swayamdipta, Mark O. Riedl, and Yejin Choi
Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations
Proceedings of NAACL 2022 (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language ModelsExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Explainability Pitfalls: Beyond Dark Patterns in Explainable AI
Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Human Centered AI (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

Xiangyu Peng, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark Riedl
Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents with Stacked Hierarchical Graph Attention
Workshop on Explainable Graph-based Machine Learning at AKBC (2021).
Workshop bibtexAgentsExplainable AIInterpretabilityReinforcement Learning

Sarah Wiegreffe, Ana Marasovic, and Noah A. Smith
Measuring Association Between Labels and Free-Text Rationales
Proceedings of NAACL 2021 (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexLarge Language ModelsExplainable AIInterpretability

Sarah Wiegreffe and Ana Marasovic
Teach Me to Explain: A Review of Datasets for Explainable NLP
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Ronal Singh, Upol Ehsan, Marc Cheong, Mark O. Riedl, and Tim Miller
LEx: A Framework for Operationalising Layers of Machine Learning Explanations
Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Operationalizing Human-Centered Perspectives in Explainable AI (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexExplainable AI

D. Srivastava, Spencer Frazier, Mark O. Riedl, and K. Feigh
Effect of Interaction Design of Reinforcement Learning Agents on Human Satisfaction in Partially Observable Domains
International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging, and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (2021).
Conference bibtexAgentsExplainable AIReinforcement Learning

Upol Ehsan, Q. Liao, Michael J. Muller, Mark O. Riedl, and Justin D. Weisz
Expanding Explainability: Towards Social Transparency in AI systems
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Philipp Wintersberger, Q. V. Liao, Martina Mara, M. Streit, Sandra Wachter, A. Riener, and Mark O. Riedl
Operationalizing Human-Centered Perspectives in Explainable AI
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2021).
ACM/DL Conference bibtexExplainable AI

2020

Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl
Human-centered Explainable AI: Towards a Reflective Sociotechnical Approach
Proceedings of HCI International 2020: 22nd International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexExplainable AI

2019

Mark O. Riedl
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 1 (2019).
arXiv Journal bibtexExplainable AI

Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Automated Rationale Generation: A Technique for Explainable AI and its Effects on Human Perceptions
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgentsExplainable AI

2018

Upol Ehsan, Brent Harrison, Larry Chan, and Mark O Riedl
Rationalization: A neural machine translation approach to generating natural language explanations
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexAgentsExplainable AI

Matthew Guzdial, Josh Reno, Jonathan Chen, Gillian Smith, and Mark O. Riedl
Explainable PCGML via Design Patterns
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
Workshop bibtexExplainable AICreativityGame Generation

Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Learning to Generate Natural Language Rationales for Game Playing Agents
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2018).
Workshop bibtexAgentsExplainable AI