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When you put a few examples in a prompt (few-shot prompting), what happens to the model's weights?

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  1. They are fine-tuned on the examples
  2. They stay exactly the same
  3. They are saved for future users

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References

  1. Brown et al., Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (arXiv 2005.14165) arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. Google Machine Learning Glossary: Generative AI (few-shot prompting) developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary/generative Checked 2026-10-10.

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