2025
ZERA: Zero-init Instruction Evolving Refinement Agent – From Zero Instructions to Structured Prompts via Principle-based Optimization
EMNLP 2025
Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) improves large language model (LLM) performance by refining prompts for specific tasks. However, prior APO methods typically focus only on user prompts, rely on unstructured feedback, and require large sample sizes and long iteration cycles—making them costly and