Chaehyeon Chung
Author directory2026
In-Place Feedback: Reliable Refinement for Multi-Turn Expert-LLM Collaboration
Youngbin Choi | Minjong Lee | Saemi Moon | Seunghyuk Cho | Chaehyeon Chung | MoonJeong Park | Dongwoo Kim
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Youngbin Choi | Minjong Lee | Saemi Moon | Seunghyuk Cho | Chaehyeon Chung | MoonJeong Park | Dongwoo Kim
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
LLM-generated drafts often contain subtle factual or logical errors, yet prior work shows that models struggle to reliably integrate multi-turn feedback aimed at fixing them. We propose *in-place feedback*, an interaction paradigm in which the user directly edits the model’s previous response and the model continues generation from the edited context. In-place feedback consistently outperforms standard multi-turn feedback across five reasoning-intensive benchmarks while requiring fewer tokens, and our fine-grained analysis shows that it applies corrections more reliably and propagates them to subsequent reasoning. A user study with domain experts refining LLM-generated summaries corroborates these findings: participants report higher final-output satisfaction and substantially lower fatigue with in-place feedback, and a mixed strategy combining in-place and multi-turn feedback improves every dimension we measure. These results suggest that editing errors in place is a more reliable way to incorporate expert corrections than multi-turn feedback, while combining the two acts complementarily to form a more effective collaboration than either mechanism alone.