Task-agnostic Prompt Compression with Context-aware Sentence Embedding and Reward-guided Task Descriptor

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Autores principales: Liskavets, Barys, Roy, Shuvendu, Ushakov, Maxim, Klibanov, Mark, Etemad, Ali, Luke, Shane
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author Liskavets, Barys
Roy, Shuvendu
Ushakov, Maxim
Klibanov, Mark
Etemad, Ali
Luke, Shane
author_facet Liskavets, Barys
Roy, Shuvendu
Ushakov, Maxim
Klibanov, Mark
Etemad, Ali
Luke, Shane
contents The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant interest in prompt compression, a technique aimed at reducing the length of input prompts while preserving critical information. However, the prominent approaches in prompt compression often require explicit questions or handcrafted templates for compression, limiting their generalizability. We propose Task-agnostic Prompt Compression (TPC), a novel framework that generalizes compression across tasks and domains without requiring input questions or templates. TPC generates a context-relevant task description using a task descriptor trained on a curated dataset of context and query pairs, and fine-tuned via reinforcement learning with a reward function designed to capture the most relevant information. The task descriptor is then utilized to compute the relevance of each sentence in the prompt to generate the compressed prompt. We introduce 3 model sizes (Base, Large, and Huge), where the largest model outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods on LongBench and ZeroSCROLLS benchmarks, and our smallest model performs comparable to the existing solutions while being considerably smaller.
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spellingShingle Task-agnostic Prompt Compression with Context-aware Sentence Embedding and Reward-guided Task Descriptor
Liskavets, Barys
Roy, Shuvendu
Ushakov, Maxim
Klibanov, Mark
Etemad, Ali
Luke, Shane
Computation and Language
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant interest in prompt compression, a technique aimed at reducing the length of input prompts while preserving critical information. However, the prominent approaches in prompt compression often require explicit questions or handcrafted templates for compression, limiting their generalizability. We propose Task-agnostic Prompt Compression (TPC), a novel framework that generalizes compression across tasks and domains without requiring input questions or templates. TPC generates a context-relevant task description using a task descriptor trained on a curated dataset of context and query pairs, and fine-tuned via reinforcement learning with a reward function designed to capture the most relevant information. The task descriptor is then utilized to compute the relevance of each sentence in the prompt to generate the compressed prompt. We introduce 3 model sizes (Base, Large, and Huge), where the largest model outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods on LongBench and ZeroSCROLLS benchmarks, and our smallest model performs comparable to the existing solutions while being considerably smaller.
title Task-agnostic Prompt Compression with Context-aware Sentence Embedding and Reward-guided Task Descriptor
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13374