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RLPE: Teaching LLMs to Prompt with Reinforcement Learning

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Briefings

RLPE is a new method that trains LLMs to analyze task model traces and generate prompts targeting observed failures, enabling better prompt engineering without inference overhead. The study applies RLPE to Enigmata, BIG-Bench Extra Hard, and PlanBench, training a 9B-parameter model that outperforms state-of-the-art frontier models on 2/3 benchmarks. The learned capability generalizes across model families, improving task models 6x larger than the original training model.

Key points

• RLPE trains a 9B-parameter model to analyze task model traces and generate prompts targeting observed failures, improving performance on Enigmata, BIG-Bench Extra Hard, and PlanBench.
• The trained model generalizes across model families, improving task models 6x larger than the original training model and matching claude-opus-5 on a held-out benchmark.

Context

Prompting is a widely used method for adapting general-purpose LLMs to domain-specific tasks. Effective prompts can be tedious to create manually, so prompt writing is increasingly handed to LLMs. Recent techniques either write prompts without observing how the task model behaves or must run alongside the task LLM at inference time, adding overhead. This study introduces RLPE to close this gap.

Limitations

The study applies RLPE to three specific benchmarks (Enigmata, BIG-Bench Extra Hard, PlanBench) and reports results on 2/3 of them. The 6x improvement factor applies to task models 6x larger than the original training model, not necessarily all sizes. The study does not claim the method works for all prompt engineering scenarios or on all model families beyond the tested ones.

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