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🎻 Rephrase and Respond Prompting

Abstract

This section covers "Rephrase and Responding Prompting".

✒️ Overview

Rephrase and Respond (RaR) is new prompting technique that aims to enhance LLM performance by allowing them to rephrase and expand the prompts before generating a response. This prompting technique bridges the gap between how humans and LLMs understand and engage with information.

Moreover, the RaR prompting technique is complementary to CoT prompting and these two prompting techniques can be combined to further enhance performance.

✒️ How it works

RaR prompting technique involves two steps namely Rephrasing and Responding.

  1. Rephrasing - The LLM analyzes the prompt and generates a paraphrased version, potentially clarifying ambiguities, breaking down complex tasks, or expanding on implicit assumptions.
  2. Responding - The LLM based on original and rephrased versions of the prompt, generates a response.

✒️ Pros

  • Improved Accuracy - RaR significantly enhances the accuracy of LLM responses by reducing misunderstandings.
  • Better Handling of Complex Tasks -  LLMs can struggle with complex or ambiguous tasks. RaR helps break them down into simpler chunks, making them easier for the model to process.
  • Enhanced Reasoning -  The rephrasing process encourages the LLM to think deeper, and explore various interpretations before answering.

✒️ Cons

  • Increased Computational Cost - Rephrasing adds an extra step to the process which results in additional computational cost.
  • Incorrect Rephrases -  When rephrasing the original prompt, LLMs may misinterpret which can result in incorrect responses.
  • Limited Transparency -  Understanding why the LLM rephrased the question in a certain way is challenging.
  • Lacks Generalizability -  RaR's effectiveness can vary with the LLM and the task at hand.

To summarize, RaR is a two-step prompting technique which enhances the performance of LLM by allowing LLM to rephrase the original prompt and then generate the response based on the original and paraphrased prompts.

📝 Note: The above image is from "Rephrase and Respond Prompting" Paper.