Research Papers
Prompt Adaptation as a Dynamic Complement in Generative AI Systems
April 12, 2026
- David Holtz | Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
- Benjamin Manning | Ph.D. Candidate
- Eaman Jahani | Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
- Hong-Yi Tu Ye | PhD Candidate
Joe Zhang | Stanford University
Mohammed Alsobay | Microsoft Research
Christos Nicolaides | University of Cyprus
Siddharth Suri | Microsoft Research
This paper studies prompt adaptation—how users adjust their inputs in response to evolving model behavior—using a common experimental design applied to two preregistered tasks with 3,750 total participants who submitted nearly 37,000 prompts.