arXiv AI

Evaluating Advanced Prompting on Gemini Flash for Multi-Hop Biomedical QA

arXiv:2606. 07548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The MedHopQA challenge presents a critical test for Large Language Models (LLMs): complex, multi-hop reasoning in the high-stakes biomedical domain.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

How to Ask the AI: A User Perspective Survey for Large Language Model Prompting

arXiv:2608. 07494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), allow users to obtain instant and effective content responses simply by typing requests, such as ``plan a three-day Vienna trip'', ``solve the attached mathematical problem'', ``draft an email to inquire review progress'', etc.

By Yiqun Zhang, Yunfan Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Sen Feng, Yiu-ming Cheung
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Which LLM is Best for Translating Natural Language Goals to PDDL

The paper evaluates how well current Large Language Models can translate natural language goals, written by video game testers, into well‑formed PDDL targets for classical planning. Using a carefully designed prompt template, six state‑of‑the‑art LLMs were tested on correctness, speed, and error tendencies with real‑world benchmarks. All models achieved high correctness (>92%), with Gemini 2.5 Flash reaching 96% accuracy and the fewest false positives, while GPT‑4.1 was the fastest, yet differences in performance and occasional failures due to ambiguity and domain limits remain.

By Tomas Balyo, Lukas Chrpa, G. Michael Youngblood
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

A Survey of LLM Prompt Datasets: Taxonomy, Linguistic Patterns, and Practical Uses

The paper presents a survey of 129 public large language model (LLM) prompt datasets, totaling over 1.22 TB and 673 million instances, and introduces a unified taxonomy for them. By analyzing seven datasets in depth, the authors identify lexical, syntactic, and semantic patterns that differentiate prompts from general text, and evaluate these patterns for tasks such as prompt filtering, source domain routing, and response quality assessment. They demonstrate that a 63‑dimensional linguistic feature set extracted on a CPU can match over 91 % of the F1 score of GPU‑based sentence embeddings while halving latency, and that structural features can effectively route prompts across datasets, though they may negatively impact response quality when prompt length is controlled.

By Yuanming Zhang, Yan Lin, Arijit Khan, Huaiyu Wan
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Beyond Prompt Engineering: A Systematic Analysis of Prompt Lexical Sensitivity and Its Impacts on Quality

The paper investigates how small lexical changes in prompts can cause large performance swings in large language models. Using a dataset of 132,000 prompt variants, the authors uncover a scaling law linking higher average task performance to lower variance and greater robustness. They identify domain-specific terminology and explicit action directives as key linguistic factors that stabilize prompts, and propose an automated Prompt-Refining Agent that reduces performance variance by 40.7% in code generation while maintaining or improving mean performance.

By Qipeng Xie, Zi Liang, Jiafei Wu, Yufei Chen, Weizheng Wang, Wenao Ma, Zhong Ming, Haiqin Yang, Kaishun Wu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

SG-FSM: A Self-Guiding Zero-Shot Prompting Paradigm for Multi-Hop Question Answering Based on Finite State Machine

arXiv:2410.17021v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models with chain-of-thought prompting, such as OpenAI-o1, have shown impressive capabilities in natural language inference tasks. H...

By Xiaochen Wang, Liang Chen, Reza Haf Zhe Yang, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Kunhao Pan, Zhifang Sui, Junqing He