The Prompt Report

Metadata

Title	The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques
Authors	Sander Schulhoff, Michael Ilie, Nishant Balepur, Konstantine Kahadze, Amanda Liu, Chenglei Si, Yinheng Li, Aayush Gupta, HyoJung Han, Sevien Schulhoff, Pranav Sandeep Dulepet, Saurav Vidyadhara, Dayeon Ki, Sweta Agrawal, Chau Pham, Gerson Kroiz, Feileen Li, Hudson Tao, Ashay Srivastava, Hevander Da Costa, Saloni Gupta, Megan L. Rogers, Inna Goncearenco, Giuseppe Sarli, Igor Galynker, Denis Peskoff, Marine Carpuat, Jules White, Shyamal Anadkat, Alexander Hoyle, Philip Resnik
Paper URL	[Arxiv URL](2406.06608 (arxiv.org))
Tags	genai llms

Text Based Prompt Techniques

• Zero Shot
  • Emotion Prompting
  • Role Prompting
  • Style Prompting
  • S2A
  • SimToM
  • RaR
  • RE2
  • Self-Ask
• Few Shot
  • Exemplar Generation
    • SG-ICL
  • Exemplar Ordering
  • Exemplar Selection
    • KNN
    • Vote K
• Thought Generation
  • Chain of Thought (CoT)
    • Zero-Shot CoT
      • Analogical Prompting
      • Step-Back Prompting
      • Thread-of-Thought (ThoT)
      • Tab-CoT
    • Few-Shot CoT
      • Active-Prompt
      • Auto-CoT
      • Complexity-Based
      • Contrastive
      • Memory-of-Thought
      • Uncertainty-Routed CoT
      • Prompt Mining
• Ensembling
  • COSP
  • DENSE
  • DiVeRSe
  • Max Mutual Information
  • Meta-CoT
  • MoRE
  • Self-Consistency
  • Universal Self-Consistency
  • USP
  • Prompt Paraphrasing
• Self Criticism
  • Chain-of-Verification
  • Self-Calibration
  • Self-Refine
  • Self-Verification
  • ReverseCoT
  • Cumulative Reason
• Decomposition
  • DECOMP
  • Faithful CoT
  • Least-to-Most
  • Plan and Solve
  • Program-of-Thought
  • Recurs.-of-Thought
  • Skeleton-of-Thought
  • Tree-of-Thought