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On the Limits of Prompt-Conditioned Language Models as General-Purpose Learners

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are frequently portrayed as general-purpose solvers capable of solving arbitrary tasks. We argue that this view overlooks a fundamental constraint: language is a compressed and capacity-limited interface for conveying task information.

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How Much Prompt Is Enough? A Blackbox Minimization of Few-Shots in LLMs

The paper introduces ramework, a blackbox prompt‑minimization framework that identifies the minimal subset of few‑shot prompts necessary for large language models (LLMs). In a case study, the framework reduces few‑shot exemplars by an average of 65.3% in character count while maintaining full propositional output fidelity, revealing that models tend to keep logical identifiers and constraint declarations while discarding natural language prose. The analysis further distinguishes between universal encoder and decoder models, offering insights into prompt compression and structural analysis.

By Ali Alfageeh, Rahul Gopinath, Amin Alipour