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Transfer-Prompting: Enhancing Cross-Task Adaptation in Large Language Models via Dual-Stage Prompts Optimization
Yupeng Chang, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu
Large language models (LLMs) face significant challenges when balancing multiple high-level objectives, such as generating coherent, relevant, and high-quality responses while maintaining efficient task adaptation across diverse tasks. To address these challenges, we introduce Transfer-Prompting, a novel two-stage framework designed to enhance cross-task adaptation in prompt generation. The framework comprises two key components: (1) source prompt construction, which refines the original prompts on source task datasets to generate source prompts with enhanced generalization ability, and (2) target prompt generation, which enhances cross-task adaptation of target prompts by fine-tuning a set of high-scored source prompts on task-specific datasets. In each optimization cycle, a reference LLM generates candidate prompts based on historical prompt-score pairs and task descriptions in our designed reference prompt. These candidate prompts are refined iteratively, while a scorer LLM evaluates their effectiveness using the multi-dimensional metrics designed in the objective prompts evaluator-a novel contribution in this work that provides a holistic evaluation of prompt quality and task performance. This feedback loop facilitates continuous refinement, optimizing both prompt quality and task-specific outcomes. We validate Transfer-Prompting through extensive experiments across 25 LLMs, including 7 foundational models and 18 specialized models, evaluated on 9 diverse datasets. The results demonstrate that Transfer-Prompting significantly improves task-specific performance, highlighting its potential for enhancing cross-task adaptation in LLMs. The code is available at https://github.com/llm172/Transfer-Prompting.
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