Challenge: Synthetic lethality (SL) is a genetic interaction where a single gene mutation allows cell survival, but simultaneous mutations in two genes lead to cell death.
Approach: They propose a prompt-based pipeline for generating natural language explanations using a dataset derived from New Bing .
Outcome: The proposed pipeline improves on existing biomedical language models in terms of text quality and explainability.

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Challenge: Existing explanation methods rely on linear approximations, accentuating irrelevant input tokens.
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PromptGen: Automatically Generate Prompts using Generative Models (2022.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Recent prompt learning has received significant attention, where downstream tasks are reformulated to the mask-filling task with the help of a textual prompt.
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Challenge: Language model prompt optimization research has shown that semantically and grammatically well-formed manually crafted prompts are outperformed by automatically generated token sequences with no apparent meaning or syntactic structure.
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Prompt Combines Paraphrase: Teaching Pre-trained Models to Understand Rare Biomedical Words (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Pre-trained models perform poorly with limited data and rare biomedical words.
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JoPA: Explaining Large Language Model’s Generation via Joint Prompt Attribution (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing attempts to explain the entire language generation often treat input prompt texts independently, ignoring their combinatorial effects on the follow-up generation.
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Challenge: Existing methods for prompt optimization still face challenges in robustness, efficiency, and generalization.
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Bounding the Capabilities of Large Language Models in Open Text Generation with Prompt Constraints (2023.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Existing and potential applications of open-ended text generation are farreaching, spanning domains such as QA, story generation, open-end dialogue, and ChatGPT 1 .
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Beyond Abstracts: A New Dataset, Prompt Design Strategy and Method for Biomedical Synthesis Generation (2024.acl-srw)

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Challenge: Existing methods to automate systematic reviews of papers are slow and incomplete . authors propose a new method to automating the systematic review process .
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Controlled Generation with Prompt Insertion for Natural Language Explanations in Grammatical Error Correction (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies present tokens, examples, and hints for corrections, but do not directly explain the reasons in natural language.
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MutantPrompt: Prompt Optimization via Mutation Under a Budget on Modest-sized LMs (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we learn and process information, but identifying optimal prompts remains a challenge for low-resource languages.
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