“I like this direction, but it’s optimizing the wrong notion of good.”
#ICML2026: we are presenting LILO: Bayesian optimization w/ language feedback on Thur (7/9), 10:30–12:15 Hall A #3612
icml.cc/virtual/2026/p…
Grounded route to language-guided agent improvement. Let's chat.
Preference optimization often reduces feedback to comparisons or rankings
But decision makers often know more than “A >> B”
They can explicitly state their preferences and priors in words
LILO is a new framework turning such feedback into signal for Bayesian Optimization
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