ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional Prompts
Published in Proceedings of the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), 2026
ZIP measures individual word importance in zero-shot instructional prompts using controlled perturbations. The study introduces a prompt-interpretability benchmark and examines how word importance varies across tasks and model families.
Recommended citation: Gohari Sadr, N., Madhusudan, S., Asgari, A., Sajjad, H., Seyyed-Kalantari, L., & Emami, A. (2026). ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional Prompts. Proceedings of the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), 428–453.
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