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Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

As of 23 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 19 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2311.04155.

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GReaTer: Gradients over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers cites this paper.

GReaTer: Gradients over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 2020

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SPaR: Self-Play with Tree-Search Refinement to Improve Instruction-Following in Large Language Models cites this paper.

SPaR: Self-Play with Tree-Search Refinement to Improve Instruction-Following in Large Language Models Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

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Memory-Augmented Agent Training for Business Document Understanding cites this paper.

Memory-Augmented Agent Training for Business Document Understanding Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 7

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Aviary: training language agents on challenging scientific tasks cites this paper.

Aviary: training language agents on challenging scientific tasks Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 61

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CDW-CoT: Clustered Distance-Weighted Chain-of-Thoughts Reasoning cites this paper.

CDW-CoT: Clustered Distance-Weighted Chain-of-Thoughts Reasoning Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

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Observation 24ac7ab2-87d9-43c5-881a-87d8a9933c22 · inbound

When Data Manipulation Meets Attack Goals: An In-depth Survey of Attacks for VLMs cites this paper.

When Data Manipulation Meets Attack Goals: An In-depth Survey of Attacks for VLMs Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 68

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Observation 5a1f8c22-d372-486c-8dd1-4e9d66d2b908 · inbound

Green Prompting: Characterizing Prompt-driven Energy Costs of LLM Inference cites this paper.

Green Prompting: Characterizing Prompt-driven Energy Costs of LLM Inference Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 17

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Observation d852b77c-8f0c-46d4-9ee6-85a30154f37a · inbound

Safety in Large Reasoning Models: A Survey cites this paper.

Safety in Large Reasoning Models: A Survey Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 2023

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Divide, Optimize, Merge: Fine-Grained LLM Agent Optimization at Scale cites this paper.

Divide, Optimize, Merge: Fine-Grained LLM Agent Optimization at Scale Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 13

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Observation 1e92a30c-afaf-4117-89b9-5a774db8aee0 · inbound

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Black-Box Prompt Optimization as the Scale of LLMs Continues to Grow cites this paper.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Black-Box Prompt Optimization as the Scale of LLMs Continues to Grow Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 4

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Observation 345b1eb6-4d59-4c95-bc1e-b6fb1541e42f · inbound

Adaptive Plan-Execute Framework for Smart Contract Security Auditing cites this paper.

Adaptive Plan-Execute Framework for Smart Contract Security Auditing Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 30

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Observation 25337bed-b46b-45e8-9ee0-9115fbeaef5a · inbound

Tournament of Prompts: Evolving LLM Instructions Through Structured Debates and Elo Ratings cites this paper.

Tournament of Prompts: Evolving LLM Instructions Through Structured Debates and Elo Ratings Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 9

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CausalAbstain: Enhancing Multilingual LLMs with Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Abstention cites this paper.

CausalAbstain: Enhancing Multilingual LLMs with Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Abstention Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 4

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Observation 7e67a5a8-e88d-47b0-bbb9-3191d33d54e9 · inbound

The Evolution of Natural Language Processing: How Prompt Optimization and Language Models are Shaping the Future cites this paper.

The Evolution of Natural Language Processing: How Prompt Optimization and Language Models are Shaping the Future Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 56

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Observation 0e091188-9fbc-4eec-9ff2-8d7df7b3aa48 · inbound

P3: Prompts Promote Prompting cites this paper.

P3: Prompts Promote Prompting Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 2023

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Adapting Large VLMs with Iterative and Manual Instructions for Generative Low-light Enhancement cites this paper.

Adapting Large VLMs with Iterative and Manual Instructions for Generative Low-light Enhancement Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 7

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Observation a631b25a-f334-4eae-a762-1ad920e84509 · inbound

Discrete Prompt Tuning via Recursive Utilization of Black-box Multimodal Large Language Model for Personalized Visual Emotion Recognition cites this paper.

Discrete Prompt Tuning via Recursive Utilization of Black-box Multimodal Large Language Model for Personalized Visual Emotion Recognition Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 44

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Observation 3b9b45d7-ef20-45f6-a2be-13c61d69591d · inbound

MAGA-Bench: Machine-Augment-Generated Text via Alignment Detection Benchmark cites this paper.

MAGA-Bench: Machine-Augment-Generated Text via Alignment Detection Benchmark Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 14

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Supplement Generation Training for Enhancing Agentic Task Performance cites this paper.

Supplement Generation Training for Enhancing Agentic Task Performance Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training

Reference 14

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