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arxiv: 2606.05023 · v1 · pith:FAIK56HBnew · submitted 2026-06-03 · 💻 cs.HC

Scaling Expert Feedback with Reflective Edit Propagation in Compositional Knowledge Bases

Jiajing Guo , Xueming Li , Jorge Piazentin Ono , Wenbin He , Liu Ren This is my paper

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keywords reflective agentknowledge base curationedit propagationexpert feedbackintent inferenceLLM-assisted editinghuman-AI collaboration
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A reflective agent infers the intent of one expert edit and propagates the correction across an entire knowledge base.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Domain-specific knowledge bases require expert validation after initial LLM drafts, yet reviewing each entry individually does not scale. The paper introduces RAID to convert a single expert edit into broad updates by first determining the reason for the change. It operates through a three-step process of inferring intent, planning the reflection, and executing changes under user oversight. A reader would care because this approach could allow organizations to keep large proprietary databases accurate with far less expert time spent on repeated checks.

Core claim

RAID transforms individual expert edits into systematic knowledge updates by using a reflective agent to infer the underlying semantic intent behind a single expert edit and propagates that correction across the entire KB through Intent Inference, Reflection-based Planning, and User Controlled Execution. Evaluation on a public dataset and a user study with subject matter experts on proprietary data shows the technical feasibility of capturing expert intent and scaling it.

What carries the argument

The RAID three-step architecture of Intent Inference, Reflection-based Planning, and User Controlled Execution, where a reflective agent infers semantic intent from an edit to drive propagation.

If this is right

  • One expert edit can update multiple related entries without separate reviews for each.
  • Expert workload for maintaining LLM-drafted knowledge bases decreases while preserving technical accuracy.
  • User-controlled execution lets experts approve or adjust the planned propagations before they take effect.
  • Evaluations confirm the system captures intent on both public and proprietary data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same intent-inference step could extend to other structured data curation tasks beyond identifier dictionaries.
  • If generalization holds, organizations might maintain knowledge bases in near real time as experts make occasional corrections.
  • Further tests on entries with ambiguous intent would clarify where the propagation step breaks down.

Load-bearing premise

The reflective agent can accurately infer the semantic intent from a single expert edit so the inferred intent generalizes correctly to other entries without introducing new errors.

What would settle it

Run RAID on a set of held-out expert edits and measure how often the propagated changes match independent expert judgments on those same entries; high mismatch rates would disprove reliable propagation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.05023 by Jiajing Guo, Jorge Piazentin Ono, Liu Ren, WenBin He, Xueming Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Reflective agent framework. Layer 0 represents the LLM synthesis phase where an LLM decomposes identifiers [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: RAID system and interaction flow. The primary interactions occur in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Reflection agent prompt template. The prompt instructs the LLM to infer expert intent from an edit and plan [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Reflection agent prompt template (continued). The prompt provides the target identifier context, connected symbols, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Domain-specific knowledge bases (KBs) encode vertical expertise and proprietary information that organizations depend on, but curating them at scale is a persistent challenge. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can draft initial entries efficiently, technical accuracy still requires human expert validation, and reviewing entries one by one at scale is impractical. We present Reflective Agent for Identifier Dictionary (RAID), a novel system that transforms individual expert edits into systematic knowledge updates. Unlike traditional "correct-and-save" paradigms, RAID utilizes a reflective agent to infer the underlying semantic intent behind a single expert edit and propagates that correction across the entire KB through a three-step architecture: Intent Inference, Reflection-based Planning, and User Controlled Execution. We evaluated the reflection and propagation performance on a public dataset and conducted a user study with subject matter experts with proprietary data. The evaluation shows RAID's technical feasibility in capturing expert intent and its potential to scale specialized expertise across industrial knowledge bases.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents RAID, a system for scaling expert feedback in domain-specific knowledge bases. It uses a reflective agent to infer the underlying semantic intent from a single expert edit and propagates the correction across the KB via a three-step architecture: Intent Inference, Reflection-based Planning, and User Controlled Execution. The authors report an evaluation of reflection and propagation performance on a public dataset along with a user study involving subject matter experts and proprietary data, claiming to demonstrate technical feasibility in capturing expert intent.

Significance. If the reflective propagation mechanism proves reliable, the approach could meaningfully address the scalability challenge of curating large vertical knowledge bases by converting isolated expert corrections into systematic updates. The three-step architecture offers a structured way to generalize edits beyond simple string replacement. However, the complete absence of any quantitative metrics, baselines, or error analysis in the manuscript prevents assessment of whether the claimed feasibility holds.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The statement that 'the evaluation shows RAID's technical feasibility in capturing expert intent' is load-bearing for the central claim yet is unsupported by any reported metrics, baselines, results, error analysis, or dataset details from either the public dataset evaluation or the user study.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful review and the identification of a key issue in how the abstract presents our evaluation results. We address the comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The statement that 'the evaluation shows RAID's technical feasibility in capturing expert intent' is load-bearing for the central claim yet is unsupported by any reported metrics, baselines, results, error analysis, or dataset details from either the public dataset evaluation or the user study.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract claim is insufficiently supported as written. The manuscript body contains descriptions of the public dataset evaluation and user study, but these sections do not include the quantitative metrics, baselines, or error analysis needed to substantiate the abstract statement. We will revise the abstract to remove or qualify the unsupported claim and will add a concise summary of key results (including metrics and dataset details) to the abstract in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The paper describes a systems architecture (RAID) with a three-step process for intent inference and edit propagation, supported by evaluations on a public dataset and a user study with experts. No mathematical derivations, equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations appear in the provided abstract or description that reduce any claim to its own inputs by construction. The central claims rest on empirical feasibility demonstrations rather than any self-referential or definitional loop.

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