Towards Data Science October 1, 2026 By Abdullahi Dattijo

Can an Apartment Search Agent Call the Model Fewer Times and Still Find Good Matches?

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The article examines whether an apartment search agent can reduce the number of times it calls a predictive model while still identifying suitable matches. The author conducted 2,500 listing checks using Weights & Biases Weave, systematically eliminating unnecessary model computations, and evaluated each iteration against consistent reference answers.

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