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Few-Shot Learning

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In Short

Providing a small number of examples in the prompt to demonstrate desired behavior.

Few-shot learning leverages in-context learning with explicit examples to guide model behavior.

Best Practices

Representative examples
Diverse edge cases
Consistent format
Quality over quantity

Variants

Zero-shot: No examples
One-shot: Single example
Few-shot: 2-10 examples

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