Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zero-shot

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

Syllables: ze-ro-shot
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to zero-shot learning; performing without specialized training data.

Example Sentences

"zero-shot object detection"
"zero-shot translation"
"Ask yourself if there is a way to get a zero-shot solution. If you think that you need external examples to prime the model for your use case, think really hard."
"No additional prompts for getting the responses were used, i.e. the data was created with a basic prompt in a zero-shot scenario."

Etymology

After one-shot learning.

Frequently Paired Words

one-shot few-shot

Questions

What does zero-shot mean?: Relating to zero-shot learning; performing without specialized training data.
Where does zero-shot come from?: After one-shot learning.

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