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Large Language ModelsarXiv cs.CLPublished: Mar 26, 2026, 13:00 JST

Study finds moderate prompt compression cuts AI inference costs by 28%, but aggressive compression backfires by increasing costs despite token reduction

Study finds moderate prompt compression cuts AI inference costs by 28%, but aggressive compression backfires by increasing costs despite token reduction

Pre-registered randomized trial tested prompt compression on Claude Sonnet 4.5 across 358 successful production runs with real orchestration instructions

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