Few-Shot
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Definitions
A prompting approach where a small number of input-output examples are included in the context to guide model behavior on a new task. Few-shot prompting helps models understand the desired format, tone, or logic without any weight updates.
“We gave the model three few-shot examples of our data format and it immediately understood the pattern.”
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