arXiv AI By Jianfei Ma, Zhaoxin Feng, Emmanuele Chersoni, Si Chen

Every Time I Hire a Linguist, Inference Costs Go Down: On Linguistic Rules as Effective Prompt Compressors

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arXiv:2607. 25335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt compression shortens LLM input to reduce inference cost, yet existing methods score token importance through LM forward passes.

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