Few-shot

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    A machine learning paradigm where a model is trained on a very small amount of data, typically less than that required for traditional machine learning approaches. attributive, not-comparable

    "No additional prompts for getting the responses were used, i.e. the data was created with a basic prompt in a zero-shot scenario. This is in contrast to the benchmarks by OpenAI, who used an engineered prompt in a few-shot scenario to guide the generation of essays."

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"No additional prompts for getting the responses were used, i.e. the data was created with a basic prompt in a zero-shot scenario. This is in contrast to the benchmarks by OpenAI, who used an engineered prompt in a few-shot scenario to guide the generation of essays."

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