Challenge: Extended prompts can lead to substantial computational overhead and increased hardware demands, limiting the scalability and efficiency of large language models.
Approach: They propose a two-stage prompt compression framework that combines task-agnostic and task-based strategies to efficiently compress prompt length without compromising performance.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms task-agnostic and task-specific compression methods on three benchmark datasets and is up to 6.56 faster at inference compared to the best token-level compression method.

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