ripple-edits-ice-prompt-format

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Created 2026-08-25T02:57:56+00:00

The In-Context Editing (ICE) baseline prepends the prompt 'Imagine that would have been ' to the query, where Pr is a manually written natural-language proposition of the relation r.

Summary

The ICE editing method works by tacking a fixed sentence in front of the user's question, in the shape of "Imagine that [entity] would have been [description]," where the description is a relationship someone has to type out by hand in plain English. This matters because it means the approach depends on a human writing each edit in natural language and on a rigid prompt template, so it is a deliberately simple, manual baseline rather than an automated system that can infer or generate the relation on its own.