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few-shot

few-shot adjective: 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.

Adjective

few-shot (not comparable)

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

Phrases with few-shot

Questions about few-shot

What does few-shot mean?
Few-shot means 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.
What part of speech is few-shot?
Few-shot is an adjective.

Words near few-shot in the dictionary

  1. few cards short of a full deck
  2. few cards shy of a full deck
  3. few sandwiches short of a picnic
  4. few-flowered sedge
  5. few-flowered sedges
  6. few-shot
  7. few-shot learning
  8. fewa
  9. fewe
  10. fewel
  11. Fewell

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