Zero-Shot Prompting
Domain: Prompt Engineering
🎯 Motivation
Asking the model to do a task without providing examples. Large, well-tuned models can often do this.
📋 Concrete Example
‘Classify this email as spam or not spam: CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON $1000000’ - No examples needed. The model just classifies it as spam.
🔗 Analogy
Asking a fluent speaker to translate a sentence - you don’t need to show them examples first. They just know how to translate. Zero-shot relies on the model’s pre-existing capabilities.