Prompt EngineeringShiyan Liu et al.
Liu et al. publish Reflection in the Dark
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Published Reflection in the Dark — demonstrated conditions under which reflective prompt optimization worsens accuracy from 23.81% to 13.50%
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The first to isolate a failure mode of GEPA-style automatic prompt optimization
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18388Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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