Introduction to the Special Issue on Explainable AI in Evolutionary Computation

Abstract

First paragraph: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has recently emerged as one of the most active areas of research in AI. While Evolutionary Computation (EC) is also a very active research area, the intersection between XAI and EC is still rather unexplored. This topic was the subject of our Workshops on EvolutionaryComputingandExplainableArtificialIntelligence(ECXAI) organized at GECCO 2022 and GECCO 2023. This special issue collects four articles further exploring the intersection between XAI and EC, including both, the use of EC for XAI as well as the use of explainability techniques to better understand EC methods.