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1. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   True Few-Shot Learning with Language Models

   Perez, Kiela and Cho · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper tests cross-validation and minimum description length for choosing prompts and hyperparameters without held-out examples, and finds they barely beat random choice, suggesting earlier work overstated few-shot ability.

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   1. UncheckedIn true few-shot settings, model selection criteria often choose language models that do significantly worse than ones picked at random.“Moreover, selection criteria often prefer models that perform significantly worse than randomly-selected ones.”