Large Language Models as Optimizers

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Overview

• Optimization is a common task, but traditional gradient-based methods have limitations when gradients are not available.


• The paper proposes a new approach called "Optimization by PROmpting" (OPRO) that uses large language models (LLMs) as optimizers, where the optimization task is described …

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