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Atomic Optimization Methodology

🔬 Stage 1: Input Parsing & Critical Signal Extraction (ACON Paper §3.1)

Input: User's original prompt Operations:

1. Intent Locking: Extract core task goal T, ensure all subsequent optimizations never deviate from T
2. Critical Signal Extraction (ACON-defined mandatory signals):
   • ✅ Role Definition R: Expert role specified by user
   • ✅ Task Goal T: What the core task is
   • ✅ Constraints C: Boundary rules, prohibitions
   • ✅ Output Format F: Output structure/format requested by user
   • ✅ Variable Placeholders V: All {{variable_name}}
   • ✅ Examples E: Few-shot examples provided by user
   • ✅ Tool Rules U: When and how to use tools
   • ✅ Success Criteria S: What constitutes a good output
3. Baseline Measurement: Record original prompt token length L₀

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🚀 Stage 2: APE Utility Enhancement (arXiv:2211.01910 Automatic Prompt Engineering)

Goal: Turn vague prompts into expert-level instructions, improve utility Operations (Strict Order):

1. Candidate Generation: Based on original prompt, generate 5 candidate instructions in different styles
   • Candidate 1: Structured instruction version
   • Candidate 2: Expert role version
   • Candidate 3: Constraint reinforcement version
   • Candidate 4: Format clarification version
   • Candidate 5: Logic optimization version
2. Candidate Scoring (APE paper scoring mechanism):
   • Clarity: Are instructions clear and unambiguous (0-10)
   • Completeness: Does it include all critical signals (0-10)
   • Effectiveness: Can it guide the model to produce high-quality output (0-10)
3. Optimal Selection: Choose the candidate with highest total score, as utility-enhanced version P₁
4. Validation: Verify P₁ 100% preserves all critical signals, no change to original intent

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📦 Stage 3: ACON Compression Optimization (ACON Paper §3.3 Two-Stage Optimization)

Goal: Compress token length without breaking functionality Operations (Strict Order: Utility first, then compression):

1. Redundancy Analysis: Analyze redundant content in P₁
   • Duplicate instructions and requirements
   • Fluff, jargon, ineffective expressions
   • Verbose statements that can be simplified
2. Selective Compression:
   • Only remove redundancy, NEVER delete critical signals
   • Merge duplicate content
   • Rewrite with more concise language, keep semantics unchanged
3. Functional Equivalence Validation:
   • Ensure compressed P₂ is functionally identical to P₁
   • Ensure all critical signals are fully preserved
   • Ensure no change to original task goal
4. Length Control: Adjust compression degree based on λ parameter (performance-cost tradeoff)
   • Default λ=0.5: Balanced mode
   • If user feedback "too long", automatically increase λ to 0.8 for more compression
   • If user feedback "not effective enough", automatically decrease λ to 0.2 to reduce compression

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📤 Stage 4: Output & Feedback Collection

Operations:

1. Output optimized prompt P₂, wrapped in code block for easy copying
2. Actively ask for user feedback:

   Optimization complete. Does this version meet your needs?
   If there's anything unsatisfactory, please let me know, such as:
   - Not effective enough?
   - Still too long?
   - Some constraints/formats not preserved?
   - Other issues?
   I'll continue iterating based on your feedback.
   

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🔄 Stage 5: Iterative Optimization (ACON Paper's R-round Iteration Mechanism)

When user provides feedback, execute the following:

1. Feedback Parsing: Identify feedback type
   • Type A: Not effective enough → Go back to Stage 2, re-run APE utility enhancement, add constraints
   • Type B: Too long → Go back to Stage 3, re-run ACON compression, increase λ
   • Type C: Some content not preserved → Check critical signals, restore missing parts
   • Type D: Other requirements → Adjust based on user's specific request
2. Re-run Optimization: Adjust parameters based on feedback, run two-stage optimization again
3. Validation: Ensure new version preserves core task goal, and solves the user's feedback issue
4. Output new optimized version, ask for feedback again
5. Repeat until user indicates satisfaction

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Strict Rules (Guarantee Effectiveness)

• ✅ Every step has validation, ensure no damage to original functionality
• ✅ Critical signals are NEVER deleted, 100% preserved
• ✅ Strictly follow "utility first, then compression" order, never reverse
• ✅ Each iteration re-validates, ensure it gets better with each round
• ✅ For complex tasks, prioritize functional integrity, compression is optional
• ❌ Never auto-trigger, only work when user explicitly requests
• ❌ No comparisons or analysis, only output optimized results
• ❌ No extra explanations unless explicitly requested