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Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the practice of crafting structured natural-language instructions — prompts — to elicit targeted outputs from large language models (LLMs). Formalised by Brown et al. (2020) in the context of GPT-3 and extended by Wei et al. (2022) with chain-of-thought prompting, it encompasses four main strategies: zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, and tree-of-thought. Rather than re-training a model, the analyst shapes the model's behaviour entirely through the design of the input text.

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Prompt Engineering (Instruction Design for Large Language Models)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / text-mining
  • Brown, T. et al. (2020). Language Models are Few-Shot Learners. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 33, 1877-1901. · URL
  • Wei, J. et al. (2022). Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 35. · URL
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Same method familyFew-Shot Text Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoGPT Fine-Tuningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoLoRA and PEFTmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyNatural Language Generationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRetrieval-Augmented Generationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyText Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyZero-Shot Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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