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Glossary term
Performing a task without any task-specific examples in the prompt.
In zero-shot use, the model gets only the instruction and no examples, and relies on what it learned in training. 'Translate this to Spanish' is a zero-shot request.
Modern large models are often strong at it, though adding examples can still help.
A zero-shot prompt
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"The battery dies in an hour."Zero-shot ability is why one model can handle so many tasks without being retrained for each.