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Defines the technique and demonstrates text-to-image and image-based applications, but does not explain model internals.

One-shot prompting

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Single-shot prompting is a prompting technique that provides an AI model with one task-specific example before requesting an output.

One-shot prompting gives an AI model one clear, task-specific example to guide its next response. The example communicates the desired pattern, style, setting, or characteristics without requiring several demonstrations. section 4.2.2

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Ask an image generator: “Draw a cat sitting on a windowsill in the style of Vincent van Gogh.” The example establishes the subject, setting, and artistic direction, producing more specific results than an unrestricted cat image. You can also upload the result and request a dog in the same style. section 4.2.2 section 4.2.2

Use one-shot prompting when a single example can clarify the intended result. Modern models may need less guidance for basic tasks, while examples remain useful for expressing specific preferences and requirements. section 4.2.5 section 4.10

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language modeluses · A language model is a computational model that represents patterns in linguistic tokens to estimate sequence probabilities and predict or generate language from context.
prompt engineeringkind of · Prompt engineering is the deliberate design and refinement of instructions, context, examples, or other inputs to guide an AI model’s behavior or outputs.
promptuses · An input, typically containing instructions or context, supplied to an artificial-intelligence model to guide or elicit its output.
few-shot prompt contextcontrasts with · Few-shot prompt context is input to a model that includes a small number of examples to guide its response or behavior.
few-shot learningalternative to · Few-shot learning is the adaptation or performance of a model on a task using only a small number of task-specific examples.
one-shot learningused by · One-shot learning is a machine-learning setting in which a model generalizes to recognize or perform a task from a single labeled or demonstrated example.

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