arXiv:2507. 04221v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Context Tuning, a simple and effective method to significantly enhance few-shot adaptation of large language models (LLMs) without weight updates.
By Jack Lu, Ryan Teehan, Zhenbang Yang, Mengye Ren
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:2507. 14725v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt-based continual learning (CL) offers a parameter-efficient way to adapt large language models (LLMs) across task sequences.
By Anushka Tiwari, Sayantan Pal, Rohini K. Srihari, Kaiyi Ji
arXiv:2609.23716v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Textual-gradient methods automate prompt optimization through natural-language feedback, but their iterative updates can be unstable. We identify two...
By Yifan Xu, Yixuan Li, Xinzhuo Li, Yixin Gu, Yifan Shen, Lijun Yu, Haohan Wang
The paper investigates how different training strategies affect the prompt sensitivity of large language models. It reproduces and compares methods such as refined data construction and robustness objectives, finding that while robustness fine‑tuning improves over standard fine‑tuning and in‑context learning, the prompt gap remains large (40–57%). Notably, newer techniques like CoIN and PPCL often underperform a simple data‑construction approach that uses one template per batch, and diagnostics suggest that mixed‑template batches force the optimizer to reconcile conflicting updates rather than learn a prompt‑agnostic representation.
By Frederic Sadrieh, Michal \v{S}tef\'anik
arXiv:2608. 01672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective long-context modeling is not merely about retaining more of the past, but about preserving the information that may prove relevant later.
By Zixuan Wang, Xingyu Dang, Rui-Jie Zhu, Zixin Wen, Hengyu Fu, Wenhao Chai, Jason D. Lee