You are running a high-volume AI application. You notice that 15% of your costs come from 'Refinement Loops' where the model has to correct its own initial mistakes.

How do you architect a 'Data Flywheel' to reduce these costs over time, and how do you handle the 'Data Contamination' risk of training a model on its own synthetic outputs?

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You are running a high-volume AI application. You notice that 15% of your costs come from 'Refinement Loops' where the model has to correct its own initial mistakes.

How do you architect a 'Data Flywheel' to reduce these costs over time, and how do you handle the 'Data Contamination' risk of training a model on its own synthetic outputs?

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To create a self-optimizing "data flywheel," you can distill knowledge by fine-tuning smaller, cheaper models on the successful refinement paths of expensive "teacher" models. To prevent model collapse, you must anchor this process with human-verified data and use techniques like DPO to train the model on distinguishing high-quality results from initial errors.

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