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Zero-Shot

Asking a model to perform a task without any examples in the prompt. Works well for simple tasks. For complex or formatted outputs, few-shot is usually better.

Where this is taught

• Telling vs. Showing: Zero-Shot and Few-Shot — Phase 0: How AI Actually Reads Your Words
• CLIP and Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining — Phase 0: Multimodal Foundations
• Open-Vocabulary Vision — CLIP — Phase 3: Generative Vision Models
• Prompt Engineering Fundamentals — Phase 0: LLM Fast Track
• Self-Supervised Vision — SimCLR, DINO, MAE — Phase 3: Generative Vision Models
• Natural Language Inference — Textual Entailment — Phase 3: Transformers for NLP

Related terms

In-Context Learning

More in Prompting

Chain of Thought (CoT) · Few-Shot Prompting · Self-Consistency · Prompt Engineering

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