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Zero-shot — Glossary

Performing a task from instructions alone without in-prompt demonstrations.

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Zero-shot prompting relies on pretraining knowledge and clear instructions. It is ideal for prototyping common tasks but may fail on unusual schemas or private domain rules—where few-shot examples or fine-tuning help.

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Zero-Shot Prompting — Zero-shot prompting asks a model to perform a task using instructions alone, without providing worked input–output examples in the prompt.

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