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About this paper

Cen Mia Zhao, Tiantian Zhang, Hanchen Su, Yufeng Wayne Zhang, Shaowei Su, Mingzhi Xu, Yu Elaine Liu, Wei Han and 3 more

Airbnb researchers developed the Agent-in-the-Loop (AITL) framework, integrating real-time human feedback from customer support agents into a continuous learning pipeline for Large Language Models. This system drastically reduced model update cycles from months to weeks and improved retrieval precision by 14.8%, generation helpfulness by 8.4%, and agent adoption by 4.5%.

Key insights

  • Live, contextual human feedback from agents significantly improves annotation quality and relevance, especially for identifying missing knowledge, compared to traditional offline methods.
  • LLM-based virtual judges effectively filter low-quality annotations, maintaining data integrity and consistently improving retrieval and citation accuracy in the continuous learning pipeline.
  • Retraining models using a mix of historical and newly collected annotations enhances model robustness and adaptability to both long-term patterns and recent changes.

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