Prompt evolution lets frozen LLMs learn new forecasting regimes without retraining

Outcome-driven prompt evolution makes a frozen LLM beat time-series foundation models on held-out data without any training.

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Laurent Mombaerts · Jonathan Taws · Jacopo Gargano · Dinesh Gaddam · Kevin George · Srijan Tiwari · +1 more

Amazon Web Services · University of California

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The authors replace retraining with a continual learning loop that writes a short text guidance block into a frozen LLM's prompt.

The authors treat continual learning for time series forecasting as prompt evolution.

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