zhou-black-box-api-compatible

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Created 2026-08-25T02:59:09+00:00

The context-faithful prompting methods work with black-box API LLMs and do not require white-box model access, unlike confidence calibration approaches.

Summary

You can use these context-grounding prompting techniques with any standard LLM API you call over the network, without needing to see inside the model or access its internal outputs. That makes them far more practical than confidence-calibration methods, which only work if you have direct, white-box access to the model's internals.