Summary of Task Facet Learning: a Structured Approach to Prompt Optimization, by Gurusha Juneja et al.
Task Facet Learning: A Structured Approach to Prompt Optimization
by Gurusha Juneja, Nagarajan Natarajan, Hua Li, Jian Jiao, Amit Sharma
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel approach to prompt optimization for large language models (LLMs). Prompt optimization is the process of generating a text prompt that effectively captures the essence of a given task. The authors identify two key challenges in existing algorithmic approaches: they are limited in their ability to capture multiple facets of a complex task and struggle to generate long, complex prompts. To address these limitations, the authors introduce UniPrompt, an algorithm that learns to optimize prompts by breaking them down into loosely coupled semantic sections. UniPrompt consists of a generative model and a feedback mechanism that aggregates suggested edits from multiple mini-batches into a conceptual description for each section. The authors evaluate UniPrompt on multiple datasets and demonstrate its ability to generate high-accuracy prompts that outperform human-tuned prompts and state-of-the-art methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computers better at understanding what we want them to do. We give them a task, like “tell me a joke,” and they need to figure out how to ask the right questions to get the answer. Right now, computer scientists are working on ways to help computers understand these tasks better. This paper presents a new approach that can generate really long and complex prompts that computers can understand even better than before. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generative model » Optimization » Prompt
