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Few-Shot Learning

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

Few-shot learning is a prompting technique where a small number of examples are included in the prompt to guide the model's behavior on a specific task. It can improve consistency but also introduces governance considerations around example selection and bias.

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