arXiv:2606. 11459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are highly sensitive to prompt formulation, necessitating automatic prompt optimization to unlock their full potential.
By Fei Wang, Si Si, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Inderjit S. Dhillon
arXiv:2603. 18388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatic prompt optimization (APO) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving LLM performance without manual prompt engineering.
By Shiyan Liu, Qifeng Xia, Qiyun Xia, Yisheng Liu, Xinyu Yu, Rui Qu
arXiv:2606. 04661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompts tuned for accuracy often grow long, raising inference cost on every model call.
By Shanu Kumar, Shubhanshu Khandelwal, Akhila Yesantarao Venkata, Parag Agrawal, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Manish Gupta
arXiv:2511. 19829v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prompt optimization has become a central mechanism for eliciting strong performance from LLMs, and recent work has made substantial progress by proposing diverse prompt evaluation metrics and optimization strategies.
By Ke Chen, Yifeng Wang, Hassan Almosapeeh, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2606. 19605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-step LLM pipelines fail through interactions among retrieval, reasoning, and formatting steps, so prompt-only optimization can miss bottlenecks in the chain.
By Paul Kassianik, Baturay Saglam, Huaibo Zhao, Blaine Nelson, Supriti Vijay, Aman Priyanshu, Amin Karbasi
arXiv:2507. 09839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An increasing number of NLP applications interact with large language models (LLMs) through black-box APIs, making prompt engineering critical for controlling model behavior.
By MohammadReza Davari, Utkarsh Garg, Weixin Cai, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv:2511. 19829v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most prompt-optimization methods refine a single static template, making them ineffective in complex and dynamic user scenarios.
By Ke Chen, Yifeng Wang, Hassan Almosapeeh, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2608. 10471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt optimizers automate the search for prompts that improve language-model performance, but existing methods rely on a predefined optimization procedure: the algorithm determines which candidates to explore and how the search progresses, while the language model generates or refines prompt proposals.
By Subhash Bangalore Satheesha, Nirvik Pande, Deepthi Duddempudi, Bharath Dandala
arXiv:2607. 24354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic prompt optimization (APO) has been widely adopted to adapt vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks without weight updates, yielding promising results.
By Haoyue Liu, Xiaoyu Ma, Ye Chen, Yuexian Zou, Xiaoying Tang
arXiv:2608. 04336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code generation systems make each LLM call with a model, a prompt, and decoding settings.
By Jingzhi Gong, Jie M. Zhang, Gunel Jahangirova, Dong Huang, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Mark Harman
arXiv:2507. 09562v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has transformed image segmentation by introducing a prompt-based paradigm that enables strong zero-shot generalization.
By Yidong Jiang, Jiangtong Li, Daiwei Cheng
Prompt-driven vision-language models (VLMs) hold immense promise for accelerating dense remote sensing (RS) annotation, but static models suffer from severe performance degradation when deployed on novel scenes, unseen categories, or visually confusing backgrounds. Moreover, existing unified paradigms primarily rely on intra-image specific prompts, lacking flexible task routing to adapt to multi-intent operational workflows.