Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
AI summary
Editorial policyResearch shows that a single instruction for telegraphic format reduces API output tokens by 40–49% while allowing full information restoration across four model families.
Key points
- •Specifying telegraphic format, which excludes articles and redundant expressions, via a single instruction reduces API output tokens by 40–49%.
- •It was confirmed that information can be restored with full fidelity from the compressed format across four different model families.
- •The potential to halve output costs for major APIs in machine-to-machine communication was demonstrated.