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Yifan Shen

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STEVE: Stabilizing Textual Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization via Error-Driven Refinement and Regularized Verification

Yifan Xu, Yixuan Li, Xinzhuo Li et al. · 2026

Textual-gradient methods automate prompt optimization through natural-language feedback, but their iterative updates can be unstable. We identify two sources of this instability: noisy gradients produced from already-correct examples and over-specialization to hard cases that degrades performance on simpler inputs. We …

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