arxiv: 2512.10821 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-11 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CV· cs.HC· cs.LG

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Agile Deliberation: Concept Deliberation for Subjective Visual Classification

Leijie Wang , Otilia Stretcu , Wei Qiao , Thomas Denby , Krishnamurthy Viswanathan , Enming Luo , Chun-Ta Lu , Tushar Dogra

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keywords human-in-the-loopconcept deliberationsubjective visual classificationcontent moderationiterative refinementborderline examplesconcept scoping

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Agile Deliberation guides users to refine vague visual concepts into accurate classifiers through scoping and borderline feedback.

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The paper presents Agile Deliberation as a human-in-the-loop system that operationalizes real content-moderation strategies to handle subjective and evolving visual concepts. Users begin with an initial idea and move through concept scoping, which breaks the idea into a hierarchy of sub-concepts, followed by concept iteration, which presents borderline images for reflection and label feedback. The framework is evaluated in 18 controlled 1.5-hour user sessions rather than fixed datasets. Results show higher F1 scores than automated decomposition or manual deliberation baselines, along with reports of clearer understanding and lower effort. This matters for applications such as content moderation where concepts are rarely fixed in advance.

Core claim

Agile Deliberation is a two-stage framework that first decomposes an initial visual concept into a structured hierarchy of sub-concepts and then surfaces semantically borderline examples for iterative user feedback, allowing an image classifier to align with the user's evolving intent even when the concept begins vague and subjective.

What carries the argument

The Agile Deliberation framework with its two explicit stages of concept scoping into a sub-concept hierarchy and concept iteration on borderline examples.

If this is right

Visual classifiers for subjective tasks can be trained with less initial clarity from the user.
Users reach clearer conceptual understanding while expending lower cognitive effort.
The approach outperforms both fully automated decomposition and unstructured manual deliberation.
Borderline-example feedback becomes a repeatable mechanism for aligning models with evolving intent.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The method could be adapted to other domains with subjective labels such as medical image diagnosis or artistic style classification.
Combining the framework with active learning might further reduce the number of examples needed for convergence.
Organizations could use the scoping hierarchy as a shared artifact to improve consistency across multiple moderators.

Load-bearing premise

The deliberation patterns observed in the 18 user sessions will generalize to the strategies used by professional content moderators in ongoing production work.

What would settle it

A study with actual production moderation teams over several weeks that finds no gain in F1 score or reported effort would show the framework does not deliver the claimed benefits.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.10821 by Ariel Fuxman, Chun-Ta Lu, Enming Luo, Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Leijie Wang, Otilia Stretcu, Ranjay Krishna, Thomas Denby, Tushar Dogra, Wei Qiao.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of the Agile Deliberation framework and architecture. Given a subjective concept and a target dataset, Agile Deliberation produces both a structured concept definition and an image classifier through a human-in-the-loop deliberation process. At the scoping stage, the decomposition module helps users break down their initial concept into a structured definition. At the iteration stage, the borderli… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Example of iterative concept refinement in Agile Deliberation (from an actual study participant). We show the first three iteration rounds, highlighting updates within two subconcepts for brevity. Only one representative image from each batch of borderline images is displayed for illustration. In the concept scoping stage, the participant first decomposed their initial concept into in-scope and outof-scop… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: F1 scores of Agile Deliberation across rounds of concept iteration compared with two automated baselines. alone cannot capture users’ nuanced intentions. Overall, these results show that iterative human feedback in Agile Deliberation enables finer alignment between human concept understanding and classifier decisions. For participants using Manual Deliberation, a similar trend emerged for the concept paid… view at source ↗

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From content moderation to content curation, applications requiring vision classifiers for visual concepts are rapidly expanding. Existing human-in-the-loop approaches typically assume users begin with a clear, stable concept understanding to be able to provide high-quality supervision. In reality, users often start with a vague idea and must iteratively refine it through "concept deliberation", a practice we uncovered through structured interviews with content moderation experts. We operationalize the common strategies in deliberation used by real content moderators into a human-in-the-loop framework called "Agile Deliberation" that explicitly supports evolving and subjective concepts. The system supports users in defining the concept for themselves by exposing them to borderline cases. The system does this with two deliberation stages: (1) concept scoping, which decomposes the initial concept into a structured hierarchy of sub-concepts, and (2) concept iteration, which surfaces semantically borderline examples for user reflection and feedback to iteratively align an image classifier with the user's evolving intent. Since concept deliberation is inherently subjective and interactive, we painstakingly evaluate the framework through 18 user sessions, each 1.5h long, rather than standard benchmarking datasets. We find that Agile Deliberation achieves 7.5% higher F1 scores than automated decomposition baselines and more than 3% higher than manual deliberation, while participants reported clearer conceptual understanding and lower cognitive effort.

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Agile Deliberation turns expert interviews into a two-stage scoping-plus-iteration loop that helps users refine vague visual concepts, with modest F1 gains in 18 short sessions, but the study details are too thin to judge how well it travels to real moderation work.

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The core advance is taking common moderator strategies—breaking a fuzzy idea into sub-concepts then repeatedly checking borderline images—and packaging them as an explicit two-stage interface. That move from interview insight to runnable system is the part that feels new compared with earlier human-in-the-loop labeling papers. Running the evaluation as 18 live 1.5-hour sessions instead of fixed datasets is also the right instinct for a subjective task; it lets them measure both classifier F1 and user-reported clarity and effort, which standard benchmarks would miss. The reported 7.5 % F1 lift over automated decomposition and 3 % over manual deliberation is the headline number, and the user feedback on lower cognitive load lines up with the design goal. The soft spots sit in the evaluation itself. Eighteen controlled sessions are still a small sample, and the abstract gives no information on how baselines were re-implemented, how F1 was recomputed after each iteration, whether any statistical tests were run, or how participants were recruited. Without those pieces it is difficult to separate real method gains from session novelty or post-hoc alignment. The stress-test worry about production variability is fair: 1.5-hour sessions with no queue pressure or long-term drift do not yet show whether the same two-stage loop holds up when moderators face hundreds of items a day. This work is aimed at researchers building interactive tools for content moderation or curation pipelines. Anyone already thinking about human-AI concept alignment will get concrete ideas from the scoping and iteration stages. It deserves a serious referee because the framing is grounded in expert practice and the evaluation direction is appropriate, even though the current evidence needs more statistical and design detail before the gains can be treated as reliable.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Agile Deliberation, a human-in-the-loop framework for subjective visual classification (e.g., content moderation) that operationalizes expert strategies for concept deliberation. It decomposes the process into two stages—concept scoping (decomposing an initial vague concept into a structured hierarchy of sub-concepts) and concept iteration (surfacing borderline examples for iterative user feedback to align the classifier with evolving intent)—and evaluates it via 18 user sessions of 1.5 hours each rather than standard benchmarks. The central claim is that the framework yields 7.5% higher F1 scores than automated decomposition baselines and more than 3% higher than manual deliberation, while also improving users' conceptual understanding and reducing cognitive effort.

Significance. If the reported gains prove robust under more detailed scrutiny, the work would meaningfully advance interactive machine learning for subjective, evolving visual concepts by moving beyond assumptions of stable user intent. The choice to ground the framework in interviews with content moderation experts and to prioritize controlled user sessions over synthetic benchmarks is a strength that aligns with the problem's inherent subjectivity; successful validation could inform practical tools in high-stakes moderation pipelines.

major comments (3)

[Evaluation] Evaluation section: The abstract reports concrete F1 gains from 18 user sessions, but lacks details on statistical tests, exact baseline implementations, participant selection, and how F1 was computed across evolving concepts.
[User Study] User study design: The central claim of 7.5% F1 lift and reduced cognitive effort rests on the assumption that the 18 sessions of 1.5 h accurately capture production-scale deliberation variability and expert strategies; the manuscript supplies no description of how task distributions, time pressure, or participant expertise were matched to real moderation queues.
[Agile Deliberation Framework] Framework operationalization: The two-stage process is described at a high level, yet the manuscript does not specify the exact mechanism by which the concept-scoping hierarchy is generated from user input or how borderline examples are selected and labeled for the iteration stage, leaving reproducibility and parameter sensitivity unclear.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'painstakingly evaluate' is informal; a more neutral description of the evaluation protocol would improve tone.
[Throughout] Notation: Ensure consistent use of 'concept deliberation' versus 'Agile Deliberation' throughout to avoid minor reader confusion.

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments on our manuscript. We have carefully considered each point and revised the paper to improve clarity, reproducibility, and detail in the evaluation and framework sections. Our responses are provided below.

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Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section: The abstract reports concrete F1 gains from 18 user sessions, but lacks details on statistical tests, exact baseline implementations, participant selection, and how F1 was computed across evolving concepts.

Authors: We agree that additional details are warranted. In the revised manuscript, we have expanded the Evaluation section (Section 5) to include: (1) statistical significance testing using paired t-tests on the F1 scores across the 18 sessions, with reported p-values; (2) exact descriptions of the automated baselines, including the specific LLM prompts and decomposition methods used; (3) participant selection criteria, including recruitment method and expertise levels (e.g., 10 participants with prior moderation experience); and (4) F1 computation details, where for each session, a post-deliberation ground truth labeling of 100 test images was used to evaluate the final classifier. These changes ensure the results are fully transparent. revision: yes
Referee: [User Study] User study design: The central claim of 7.5% F1 lift and reduced cognitive effort rests on the assumption that the 18 sessions of 1.5 h accurately capture production-scale deliberation variability and expert strategies; the manuscript supplies no description of how task distributions, time pressure, or participant expertise were matched to real moderation queues.

Authors: This is a valid concern regarding ecological validity. Our study was intentionally designed as a controlled experiment to isolate the effects of the Agile Deliberation framework, based on strategies identified in expert interviews. We have added a detailed description of the study design in Section 4.1, including how tasks were sampled from a curated set of images representing typical moderation scenarios (e.g., ambiguous visual content from public datasets), participant expertise (recruited users with 1-5 years in related fields), and session structure to simulate deliberation without real-time pressure. We acknowledge in the limitations section that it does not fully replicate production-scale variability or time pressures, and suggest future work in live deployments. The 1.5-hour sessions allowed for in-depth measurement of cognitive effort via NASA-TLX surveys. revision: partial
Referee: [Agile Deliberation Framework] Framework operationalization: The two-stage process is described at a high level, yet the manuscript does not specify the exact mechanism by which the concept-scoping hierarchy is generated from user input or how borderline examples are selected and labeled for the iteration stage, leaving reproducibility and parameter sensitivity unclear.

Authors: We have revised Section 3 to provide precise operational details. The concept-scoping hierarchy is generated interactively: users provide an initial concept description, which is fed to an LLM (with specific prompt template provided in the appendix) to propose sub-concepts; users then refine or approve them to build the hierarchy. For the iteration stage, borderline examples are selected via a combination of model uncertainty (using softmax entropy) and semantic similarity to the current concept hierarchy, with a fixed threshold of 0.3 for selection. Users label these as positive, negative, or 'needs refinement' and provide textual feedback. We include pseudocode, all hyperparameters, and a sensitivity analysis showing robustness to variations in the number of iterations and selection threshold. This addresses reproducibility concerns. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; evaluation relies on independent user sessions rather than self-referential definitions or fitted predictions

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical human-in-the-loop system whose core claims (F1 gains over baselines) are measured via 18 separate 1.5-hour user sessions with external participants. No equations, parameter fits, or derivations appear in the abstract or described framework; the two deliberation stages are operationalized from prior interviews but then tested against independent session outcomes rather than being defined in terms of those outcomes. No self-citation chains, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked as load-bearing steps. The evaluation design therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not reduce any result to its own inputs by construction.

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The central claim depends on the domain assumption that structured decomposition plus borderline-example feedback reliably improves classifier alignment with subjective intent.

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domain assumption Users begin with vague concepts that can be usefully decomposed into hierarchies and refined via borderline cases
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fruit", ' electronic devices', 'physical affection', 'outdoor activities', whereas examples of descriptive concepts are

The primary concept should be more categorical ( concepts where you could think about specific instances) rather than descriptive (where you could only describe different aspects of the concept). Examples of categorical concepts are "fruit", ' electronic devices', 'physical affection', 'outdoor activities', whereas examples of descriptive concepts are "sl...

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categories that are already included in the concept definition as positive or negative signals

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</step2> <step3> Based on your answer in step2 and step3, reason and propose a category of subconcepts that you think is the most coherent and widely recognized

categories that have beed explored in the previous rounds of brainstorming. </step2> <step3> Based on your answer in step2 and step3, reason and propose a category of subconcepts that you think is the most coherent and widely recognized. While you can include previous explored subconcepts, your category should not significantly overlap with previously exp...

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You should ensure that this category itself is a well-defined and well-known concept so that average people can easily tell whether an image satisfies this category or not

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Your category should not be too narrow that it only covers one or two instances

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In cases where there are many potential categories of subconcepts, you should prioritize the one that most people would agree to be in-scope for the concept

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fruits",

You do not aim for proposing a category that includes the most subconcepts; Instead, you should prioritize proposing a category that is coherent, and well-defined. </requirements> 13 <examples> - For the primary concept "fruits", "fruits with red internal flesh" is not a well-known concept, whereas " citrus fruits" is. - For the primary concept "flowers",...

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e.g., be careful about using 'depict' or 'mention', or 'show' as the previous two verbs introduce the slight emphasis on visual or textual aspects

Be careful about your word choices of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, which might carry unexpected nuances. e.g., be careful about using 'depict' or 'mention', or 'show' as the previous two verbs introduce the slight emphasis on visual or textual aspects. e.g., be careful about using adjectives like ' clearly' or 'explicitly' as they might suggest a degree o...

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This description might mention several concepts but you should only focus on the primary concept

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In other words, your primary concept should have a different focus than those of the other necessary signals

If the context indicates that the focus concept is part of the necessary signals of a larger concept, then the primary concepts of these necessary signals should focus on different subconcepts of this larger concept. In other words, your primary concept should have a different focus than those of the other necessary signals

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fruit", ' electronic devices', 'physical affection', 'outdoor activities', whereas examples of descriptive concepts are

The primary concept should be more categorical ( concepts where you could think about specific instances) rather than descriptive (where you could only describe different aspects of the concept). Examples of categorical concepts are "fruit", ' electronic devices', 'physical affection', 'outdoor activities', whereas examples of descriptive concepts are "sl...

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You should NOT focus on detailing specific edgecase categories of this primary concept

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Your category should NOT significantly overlap with the subconcepts that have been explored at step3

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Your category should not refer to examples that significantly overlap with the examples that have been explored before in step2

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images that show health supplements to promote wellness

We will later define the other necessary signals for this concept, so your category should NOT try to define other necessary signals. </requirements> <example>For the concept 'health supplements' within the context of "images that show health supplements to promote wellness", 'fresh fruits', 'yoga mats', or ' spa treatments' might also be interesting beca...

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Images show [a general term for the subconcept], such as [at most three specific examples from step3]

The recommended format for the description would be "Images show [a general term for the subconcept], such as [at most three specific examples from step3]". These examples shoulld be representative of the subconcept and should be as specific as possible so that human image annotators can easily know whether an image includes this example or not. These exa...

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eagles" is a good example of the category

Avoid concept descriptions with too many specific and unnecessary details. e.g., for the concept 'beverages', your subconcept description should just be 'Images showing various types of tea drinks such as green tea, black tea, and herbal tea' rather than 'Images that show people drinking various types of tea drinks with different colors and flavors such a...

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The image shows two people use sign language to communicate with each other, but it is unclear whether sign language is considered as

Be careful about your word choices of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, which might carry unexpected nuances. e.g., be careful about using 'depict' or 'mention', or 'show' as the previous two verbs introduce the slight emphasis on visual or textual aspects. e.g., be careful about using adjectives like ' clearly' or 'explicitly' as they might suggest a degree o...

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If the concept owner provides a clear feedback, what do you think the concept owner wants to clarify? Do not generalize too much beyond what the concept owner says

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If the concept owner provides a different rating than the human raters, what is the possible reason for this disagreement? Do not generalize too much beyond this disagreement between ratings

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</step1> <step2> Summarize your reasoning in the step 1 with a few sentences

When the concept owner provides no clear feedback and the human raters and the concept owner are in agreement, what does this agreement between the concept owner and the human raters confirm? Especially in this scenario, since there is no less clear information, you should be more conservative and specific, and try to avoid generalizing too much. </step1>...

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Always make sure that your final description is CONCISE, COHERENT, and ACCURATE; an average person could easiy determine whether an image satisfies the signal based on the description

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DO NOT write a complex sentence structure in a description of a signal

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You should only make important changes to the description. If the original description misses a point, you are encouraged to use one of the following ways to incorporate the nuances the concept owner wants to convey: a) add new adjectives, b) use different verbs, or c) add a few constraint words. If the original description uses an ambiguous or misleading...

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e.g., be careful about using 'depict' or 'mention ', or 'show' as the previous two verbs introduce the slight emphasis on visual or textual aspects

Be careful about your word choices of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, which might carry unexpected nuances. e.g., be careful about using 'depict' or 'mention ', or 'show' as the previous two verbs introduce the slight emphasis on visual or textual aspects. e.g., be careful about using adjectives like ' clearly' or 'explicitly' as they might suggest a degree ...

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Images that 1) ... and 2)

If your description consists of two independent conditions, you might consider use the format like " Images that 1) ... and 2) ..." to make it more clear . </description-requirements> </step3> Provide your answer in a valid XML format, adhering to the following structure: <keypoints>Describe your reasoning of the key points of these clarifications in the ...

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If you want to edit an existing signal, the format is as follows: <concept> <name>The name of the signal you want to edit</ old-name> <old-description>The original description of the signal</old-description> <new-description>The new description of the signal</new-description> </concept>

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</improve-description> <conceptDefinition>{definition.print_definition()}</ conceptDefinition> <clarifications>{reflections_str}</clarifications> C

If you want to add a new signal, the format is as follows: <concept> <parent-signal>The name of the parent signal</ parent-signal> <type>The type of the new signal, either ' positive' or 'negative'</type> <new-name>The new name of the signal</name> <new-description>The new description of the signal</description> </concept> It might be possible that you ne...

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