zero-shot

adjective

Relating to zero-shot learning; performing without specialized training data.

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Meanings

adjectivezero-shot (not comparable)
  1. attributivenot comparablemachine learningRelating to zero-shot learning; performing without specialized training data.

    zero-shot translation

    translation between two languages without bilingual data

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    zero-shot object detection

    detection of objects not in training data

    Ask yourself if there is a way to get a zero-shot solution. If you think that you need external examples to prime the model for your use case, think really hard.

    2022, Sandra Kublik, Shubham Saboo, GPT-3, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 20

    No additional prompts for getting the responses were used, i.e. the data was created with a basic prompt in a zero-shot scenario.

    2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 4

Origin

After one-shot learning.

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