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Re:The Coming of Local LLMs by rcme on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:24PM (#35530102)
Nothing about a zero or few-shot classifier precludes you from validating on a data set.
Re:The Coming of Local LLMs by nathan_compton on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:35PM (#35530278)
You can certainly hold out a validation set while you are writing your prompt, but you can't know whether the model is over fitting for your data set since you don't know what data was in the training set.
Re:The Coming of Local LLMs by rcme on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:46PM (#35530466)
You'll probably find out pretty quick in production :)

But I posit that most text classification tasks don't have such strict accuracy requirements. For one, no text classifier is 100% accurate. For instance, I have genuine mail in my spam folder frequently. I see spam on social networks, etc. I struggle to think of cases that aren't at least somewhat tolerant to some amount of incorrect classification.

Re:The Coming of Local LLMs by jprete on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:57PM (#35533761)
I think most users are not going to do this; they have no reason to even know such a thing might be done, let alone that it’s useful.