Zero-shot Learning — Zero-Shot Learning

Fact

Learning where AI does a task without seeing examples of that task.

In Plain Words

Zero-shot is a school talent show with no rehearsal. The AI hears the song title and walks onstage anyway.

You meet it when AI labels a new kind of photo or answers a new kind of question. It saves example-making, but weird cases can make it trip.

Related Concepts

• Few-Shot Learning
• In-context Learning
• Pretraining

Few-Shot Learning
Zero-shot uses no examples, but Few-Shot Learning uses a few.

In-Context Learning
Zero-shot Learning is In-Context Learning with no examples in the prompt.

Pretraining
Pretraining gives the background knowledge Zero-Shot Learning leans on.