Prompt-R1: Collaborative Automatic Prompting Framework via End-to-end Reinforcement Learning

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Authors: Wenjin Liu, Haoran Luo, Xueyuan Lin, Haoming Liu, Tiesunlong Shen, Jiapu Wang, Rui Mao, Erik Cambria
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Abstract

Recently, various excellent and powerful large language models (LLMs) have been utilized to solve a wide range of human problems.However, when faced with complex problems, most users are often unable to provide accurate and effective prompts to interact with LLMs, thus limiting their performance.To address this challenge, we propose Prompt-R1, an endto-end reinforcement learning framework that utilizes a small-scale LLM (as agent) to collaborate with large-scale LLMs (as environment), replacing users to interact better.This collaboration is presented as a multi-turn interaction, where the small-scale LLM thinks and generates prompts, and the large-scale LLM performs complex reasoning.A doubleconstrained reward is designed to optimize correctness and quality of generation.Prompt-R1 provides a plug-and-play framework that supports both inference and training with various large-scale LLMs.Experimental results on twelve datasets show that Prompt-R1 significantly outperforms baseline LLMs across various tasks.Our code is available at https: //github.com/QwenQKing/Prompt-R1.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Topic Modeling Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Text Readability and Simplification

Publication details

Journal / source
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
16260–16280
Publication date
1 January 2026