Zero-Shot Learning
Domain: NLP Fundamentals
🎯 Motivation
The model performs a task it has never been explicitly trained on, using only its general knowledge and the prompt.
📋 Concrete Example
Ask a model to classify sentiment of Cantonese text even if it was never trained on a sentiment task in Cantonese.
🔗 Analogy
Like a student tackling a brand new question type on an exam using general reasoning, never having practiced it.