What is Zero-Shot?
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Zero-Shot Learning — Using a model to perform a task it was not explicitly trained for, without any examples. LLMs can do zero-shot classification, translation, and reasoning through their general training.
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What is zero-shot?
Asking a model to do a task without giving it any examples. Works because LLMs learn general capabilities during pre-training.
Zero-shot vs few-shot?
Zero-shot: no examples. Few-shot: 2-5 examples in the prompt. Few-shot usually gives better results for complex tasks.
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