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🧠 We just implemented Andrej Karpathy's "third paradigm" for LLM learning!
System Prompt Learning (SPL) enables LLMs to automatically learn problem-solving strategies from experience, rather than relying on static prompts.
🚀 How it works:
Your LLM builds a database of effective strategies, selects the best ones for each problem, and refines them over time based on success rates.
📊 Results across math benchmarks:
Arena Hard: 29% → 37.6% (+8.6%)
AIME24: 23.33% → 30% (+6.67%)
OptILLMBench: 61% → 65% (+4%)
The best part? All strategies are human-readable and the system gets progressively better at problem types you use frequently.
✨ Key benefits:
🔄 Cumulative learning over time
📖 Transparent, inspectable strategies
🔌 Works with any OpenAI-compatible API
⚡ Simple integration: just add "spl-" prefix to your model
Built as an open-source plugin in optillm. After 500 queries, our system developed 129 strategies and refined 97 of them!
This feels like a genuine step toward AI that learns from experience while staying completely interpretable.
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/codelion/optillm/tree/main/optillm/plugins/spl
📖 Full article: https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/system-prompt-learning
🐦 Original Karpathy tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1921368644069765486
Have you experimented with advanced system prompting? What strategies would you want your LLM to learn?
System Prompt Learning (SPL) enables LLMs to automatically learn problem-solving strategies from experience, rather than relying on static prompts.
🚀 How it works:
Your LLM builds a database of effective strategies, selects the best ones for each problem, and refines them over time based on success rates.
📊 Results across math benchmarks:
Arena Hard: 29% → 37.6% (+8.6%)
AIME24: 23.33% → 30% (+6.67%)
OptILLMBench: 61% → 65% (+4%)
The best part? All strategies are human-readable and the system gets progressively better at problem types you use frequently.
✨ Key benefits:
🔄 Cumulative learning over time
📖 Transparent, inspectable strategies
🔌 Works with any OpenAI-compatible API
⚡ Simple integration: just add "spl-" prefix to your model
Built as an open-source plugin in optillm. After 500 queries, our system developed 129 strategies and refined 97 of them!
This feels like a genuine step toward AI that learns from experience while staying completely interpretable.
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/codelion/optillm/tree/main/optillm/plugins/spl
📖 Full article: https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/system-prompt-learning
🐦 Original Karpathy tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1921368644069765486
Have you experimented with advanced system prompting? What strategies would you want your LLM to learn?
