Meta-Prompt Optimization for Higher-Quality AI Task Outputs

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often fail to write sophisticated prompts for AI or ML models, limiting the models' capabilities, and existing systems lack effective methods to enhance task prompts for better output quality.

Innovation Solution

A communication platform employs a meta prompt rephrasing module to generate variant meta prompts, using an LLM trained for rephrasing, and evaluates these prompts using evaluation data to refine the LLM, ultimately providing an optimized meta prompt for enhancing task prompts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users write simple prompts for AI/ML models, then the ease of operation is improved, but the quality of output deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of writing promptsVSAvoidquality of output
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a meta-prompt as an intermediary between the user's simple task prompt and the AI model. The meta-prompt acts as a mediator that automatically enhances the simplicity of user input while ensuring high-quality output by structuring and refining the prompt before it reaches the model.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by generating and optimizing meta-prompts in advance. The meta-prompt is prepared beforehand to automatically enhance task prompts, transforming simple user inputs into sophisticated instructions before they are processed by the AI model.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If sophisticated prompts are written for AI/ML models, then the quality of output is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of outputVSAvoidease of writing prompts
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The meta-prompt system enables self-service by automatically enhancing task prompts without requiring user expertise. The meta-prompt autonomously transforms simple user inputs into sophisticated instructions, eliminating the need for users to manually craft complex prompts while maintaining high output quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If variant meta prompts are generated and evaluated, then the quality of optimized meta prompt is improved, but the productivity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of optimized meta promptVSAvoidtime for prompt optimization
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by evaluating only the most promising variant meta-prompts rather than exhaustively testing all possible variants. This selective evaluation approach achieves sufficient optimization quality while avoiding excessive computational time and resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250298817A1Prompt enhancement
Publication Date: 2025.09.25 ZOOM VIDEO COMM INC
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AI summary

Example methods and systems for prompt enhancement are provided. A communication platform accesses an initial meta prompt. The initial meta prompt is a prompt for a generative model to enhance a task prompt. The communication platform generates a first set of variant meta prompts using a first generative model based on the initial meta prompt. The communication platform generates a first set of enhanced baseline task prompts corresponding to a set of baseline task prompts using a second generative model based on the first set of variant meta prompts. The communication platform evaluates the first set of variant meta prompts to obtain a first set of evaluation data. The communication platform selects a first variant meta prompt as a first optimized meta prompt based on the first set of evaluation data. The communication platform provides the first optimized meta prompt to a third generative model for task prompt enhancement.