Reducing Token Usage Through Representation Engineering
Insights on reducing token usage with the Caveman package and the role of activation steering.
The Caveman package has gained popularity among engineers seeking concise responses from coding agents. By omitting filler words and definite articles, it achieves approximately a 65% reduction in output tokens. New research explores whether activation steering can further enhance this conciseness, with findings indicating that combining steering with prompting yields superior results.
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