AI Glossary
Few-Shot Prompting
Technique where you give the model a few examples in the prompt to guide it.
Definition
Few-shot prompting is a prompting technique where you provide a language model with a few examples in the prompt to guide it for a task. From these examples, the model learns the desired pattern and applies it to new inputs. Few-shot lies between zero-shot (no example) and fine-tuning (many examples with parameter adjustment).
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