@inproceedings{cui-etal-2025-heuristic, title = "Heuristic-based Search Algorithm in Automatic Instruction-focused Prompt Optimization: A Survey", author = "Cui, Wendi and Zhang, Jiaxin and Li, Zhuohang and Sun, Hao and Lopez, Damien and Das, Kamalika and Malin, Bradley A. and Kumar, Sricharan", editor = "Che, Wanxiang and Nabende, Joyce and Shutova, Ekaterina and Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher", booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025", month = jul, year = "2025", address = "Vienna, Austria", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/transition-to-people-yaml/2025.findings-acl.1140/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.1140", pages = "22093--22111", ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5" }