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Home/Glossary/Human-in-the-Loop
AI Glossary Term

What does “Human-in-the-Loop” mean?

Definition

A workflow where humans review, guide, or override AI outputs.

Related terms

Inference
The runtime phase where a trained model generates predictions or outputs.
Agentic Workflow
A multi-step process where an AI system plans, executes, checks results, and iterates toward a goal.
Constitutional AI
A training and behavior-shaping approach where model outputs are guided by a fixed set of written principles.
Agentic Loop
An iterative cycle where an AI agent observes, plans, acts, and reflects until it completes a goal or hits a stop condition.
Human Preference Model
A model trained on human rankings to predict which responses users are likely to prefer.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.

Learn more in our free guides

Human-AI CollaborationSelf-Reflection in Agent LoopsFigure AI Humanoid RobotsReinforcement Learning From Human Feedback

See also

HallucinationHyperparameterGuardrailsIn-Context LearningGround TruthGradient DescentInference-Time ComputeGradient
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