A Survey of Explainable Reinforcement Learning: Targets, Methods and Needs

arXiv:2507.12599 · cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-07-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-07-16

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence — 1× in this paper
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainable AI (XAI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Papers — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Xplainable Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper

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