generate-prompt-edits-only-failures-gate-preservation-set TEC-0130 · proposedGenerate prompt edits only from failures, gate on a preserva
Sample textual gradients only from examples the current prompt answers wrongly, generate several candidate prompts, and keep one only if its improvement on the hard batch beats a scheduled penalty times its regression on a held-back sample
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Sample textual gradients only from examples the current prompt answers wrongly, generate several candidate prompts, and keep one only if its improvement on the hard batch beats a scheduled penalty times its regression on a held-back sample Filed by the drafting stage from STEVE: Stabilizing Textual Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization via Error-Driven Refinement and Regularized Verification (2609.23716) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Accuracy on 10 reasoning benchmarks across three evaluator/optimizer models against Zero-shot CoT, Three-shot CoT, TextGrad and REVOLVE (average ~3.5 points over REVOLVE), plus a modernized run with gpt-5.4-mini/gpt-5.4 on BBEH, GSM8K-Platinum and DS-1000; ablations remove the gate (lower) and swap in full-dataset or correct-only gradients (lower, correct-only falls below the initial prompt).. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.
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