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Prompt Compression

Compressione del Prompt

Prompt compression means cutting the token count of a prompt, or its surrounding context, while preserving essential information, to save cost, reduce latency and fit the context window. It is done by hand (removing redundancy, pleasantries, superfluous examples) or with automatic techniques that filter low-information words. Example: a 3,000-token context of meeting minutes is condensed into 400 tokens that keep decisions, owners and deadlines, dropping chit-chat and repetition, before being passed to the model to draft the follow-up.

Definition

Use it when working with long contexts, high volumes or tight token budgets: RAG, document processing, large-scale apps. The risk is cutting useful information: compress deliberately and check that output quality does not drop.

Related terms

• Token Efficiency
• Context Window
• Chain-of-Density
• Context Stuffing
• Prompt Caching

More in Prompting

• Prompt
• Prompting
• Role Assignment
• Zero-shot
• Few-shot
• Chain of Thought
• Prompt Engineering
• Output Format

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