2 papers
cs.CL2024
Prompt Baking
Aman Bhargava, Cameron Witkowski, Alexander Detkov +1
Two primary ways to change LLM behavior are prompting and weight updates (e.g., fine-tuning). Prompting LLMs is simple and effective, specifying the desired changes explicitly in n…
cs.CL2024
What's the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting
Aman Bhargava, Cameron Witkowski, Shi-Zhuo Looi +1
Prompt engineering is crucial for deploying LLMs but is poorly understood mathematically. We formalize LLM systems as a class of discrete stochastic dynamical systems to explore pr…