Oldenburg, Ninell & Søgaard, Anders: Navigating the informativeness-compression trade-off in XAI

_AI and Ethics_ 5 (5):925-4942. 2025Every explanation faces a trade-off between informativeness and compression (Kinney and Lombrozo, 2022). On the one hand, we want to aim for as much detailed and correct information as possible, informativeness, on the other hand, we want to ensure that a human can process and comprehend the explanation, compression. Current methods in eXplainable AI (XAI) try to satisfy this trade-off statically, outputting one fixed, non-adjustable explanation that sits some