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TextReg: Mitigating Prompt Distributional Overfitting via Regularized Text-Space Optimization

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Briefings

TextReg is a regularization framework designed to mitigate prompt distributional overfitting in large language models by optimizing text-space representations. The study identifies that iterative prompt optimization often leads to narrow sample-specific rules and poor generalization beyond training data. TextReg achieves significant improvements in out-of-distribution generalization, with accuracy gains of up to +11.8% over TextGrad and +16.5% over REVOLVE across multiple reasoning benchmarks.

Key points

• TextReg uses a soft-penalty objective realized through regularized textual gradients to optimize prompts.
• The framework combines Dual-Evidence Gradient Purification, Semantic Edit Regularization, and Regularization-Guided Prompt Update.

Context

This research addresses a critical failure mode in prompt engineering where iterative optimization methods produce prompts that generalize poorly beyond training distributions. The findings are crucial for developing more robust LLMs that can handle diverse, unseen inputs effectively.

Limitations

The study relies on benchmark results from multiple reasoning tasks. Specific experimental details, sample sizes, and exact training configurations for the benchmarks are not provided in the evidence.

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