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Zero-shot prompting

Also called zero-shot

What does “Zero-shot prompting” mean?

Zero-shot prompting: Asking a model to do a task without showing it any worked examples, relying only on the instruction and what it learned in training. Modern models handle many tasks well this way, especially common ones like summarizing, translating or classifying.

Zero-shot prompting visual guide: Asking a model to do a task without showing it any worked examples, relying only on the instruction and what it learned in training. Modern models handle many tasks well this way, especially common ones like summarizing, translating or classifying.
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What is an example of “Zero-shot prompting”?

"Label this review as positive, negative or neutral" with no sample labels is a zero-shot prompt.

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See also

Few-shot promptingTermIn-context learningTermPrompt engineeringTerm

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