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most citedExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A Manifesto of Open Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Directions

544 citations · 561 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.DL2025

Mapping the Landscape of Open Access Dashboards -- A Dataset for Research and Infrastructure Development

Johannes Schneider, Heinz Pampel

As Open Access continues to gain importance in science policy, understanding the proportion of Open Access publications relative to the total research output of research-performing…

cs.CV2025

Generative human motion mimicking through feature extraction in denoising diffusion settings

Alexander Okupnik, Johannes Schneider, Kyriakos Flouris

Recent success with large language models has sparked a new wave of verbal human-AI interaction. While such models support users in a variety of creative tasks, they lack the embod…

cs.SE2025

AI Exchange Platforms

Johannes Schneider, Rene Abraham

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into organizational technology frameworks has transformed how organizations engage with AI-driven models, influencing both ope…

cs.CL2025

Thematic and Task-Based Categorization of K-12 GenAI Usages with Hierarchical Topic Modeling

Johannes Schneider, Béatrice S. Hasler, Michaela Varrone +4

We analyze anonymous interaction data of minors in class-rooms spanning several months, schools, and subjects employing a novel, simple topic modeling approach. Specifically, we ca…

cs.LG2025

Focus on Likely Classes for Test-Time Prediction

Johannes Schneider

We ask: Can focusing on likely classes of a single, in-domain sample improve accuracy? Prior work argued "no", we answer "yes" on average. Standard entropy minimization yields larg…

cs.AI2025★ 7 cited

Generative to Agentic AI: Survey, Conceptualization, and Challenges

Johannes Schneider

Agentic AI builds upon Generative AI (GenAI). It constitutes the next major step in the evolution of AI with much stronger reasoning, learning, and interaction capabilities that en…

cs.LG2025

Using Phonemes in cascaded S2S translation pipeline

Rene Pilz, Johannes Schneider

This paper explores the idea of using phonemes as a textual representation within a conventional multilingual simultaneous speech-to-speech translation pipeline, as opposed to the…

cs.LG2025

Causally Reliable Concept Bottleneck Models

Giovanni De Felice, Arianna Casanova Flores, Francesco De Santis +4

Concept-based models are an emerging paradigm in deep learning that constrains the inference process to operate through human-interpretable variables, facilitating explainability a…

cs.CL2024

Improving Next Tokens via Second-to-Last Predictions with Generate and Refine

Johannes Schneider

Autoregressive language models like GPT aim to predict next tokens, while autoencoding models such as BERT are trained on tasks such as predicting masked tokens. We train a decoder…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Empowering Clients -- Transformation of Design Processes Due to Generative AI

Johannes Schneider, Kilic Sinem, Daniel Stockhammer

Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming creative fields shaping our culture and our heritage. We focus on widespread interactions between clients and (creative) specialists highlight…

cs.CL2024

Topic Modeling with Fine-tuning LLMs and Bag of Sentences

Johannes Schneider

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for topic modeling, outperforming classical topic models such as LDA. Commonly, pre-trained LLM encoders such as BERT are used ou…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

What comes after transformers? -- A selective survey connecting ideas in deep learning

Johannes Schneider

Transformers have become the de-facto standard model in artificial intelligence since 2017 despite numerous shortcomings ranging from energy inefficiency to hallucinations. Researc…

cs.HC2024★ 3 cited

Exploring Human-LLM Conversations: Mental Models and the Originator of Toxicity

Johannes Schneider, Arianna Casanova Flores, Anne-Catherine Kranz

This study explores real-world human interactions with large language models (LLMs) in diverse, unconstrained settings in contrast to most prior research focusing on ethically trim…

econ.TH2024

Embracing the Enemy

Álvaro Delgado-Vega, Johannes Schneider

A principal can partially influence the allocation of power between two competing parties. The principal is closer to one party, the ``friend'', than to the other, the ``enemy''. T…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Explainable Generative AI (GenXAI): A Survey, Conceptualization, and Research Agenda

Johannes Schneider

Generative AI (GenAI) marked a shift from AI being able to recognize to AI being able to generate solutions for a wide variety of tasks. As the generated solutions and applications…

cs.LG2023

Understanding and Leveraging the Learning Phases of Neural Networks

Johannes Schneider, Mohit Prabhushankar

The learning dynamics of deep neural networks are not well understood. The information bottleneck (IB) theory proclaimed separate fitting and compression phases. But they have sinc…

cs.AI2023★ 544 cited

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A Manifesto of Open Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Directions

Luca Longo, Mario Brcic, Federico Cabitza +16

As systems based on opaque Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to flourish in diverse real-world applications, understanding these black box models has become paramount. In respo…