Masked Prompting

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Bartosz Roguski
Machine Learning Engineer
Published: July 3, 2025
Glossary Category

Masked Prompting is a technique that strategically conceals or replaces specific portions of input text with placeholder tokens, enabling AI models to predict, fill, or reconstruct the hidden content based on surrounding context. This approach leverages the model’s understanding of language patterns and contextual relationships to generate appropriate completions for masked segments. Masked prompting proves particularly effective for text completion tasks, creative writing exercises, data augmentation, and educational applications where partial information guides model responses. The technique can mask single words, phrases, sentences, or structured data elements, allowing fine-grained control over generation scope and specificity. Advanced implementations utilize intelligent masking strategies that target semantically important content, employ dynamic masking ratios based on task complexity, and incorporate confidence scoring to evaluate prediction quality. This method enables controlled content generation while maintaining coherence and relevance across diverse applications.

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Last updated: July 21, 2025