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The Reality of Prompt Engineering: Simplicity Often Outperforms Sophistication in Reasoning Tasks

2025-08-21

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Despite the proliferation of prompt engineering techniques for large language models, research outputs present contradictory findings about optimal strategies, with some studies showing substantial improvements while others demonstrate minimal effects. We conducted a two-phase comprehensive evaluation to systematically assess prompt effectiveness across challenging reasoning tasks. Our...

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Literature Corpus work: 39aaeed6-02aa-5e18-a749-b664457903b3
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7410360/v1

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