Topic: representation analysis
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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Few-Shot Degradation Is Not What It Seems: Behavioral Evidence, Representation Analysis, and a Random-Text Control Across 12 Models, 2 Tasks, and 2 Architectures
A study evaluated 12 language models on two tasks and found that few-shot prompting sometimes degrades model performance, challenging the assumption that it always improves them. This matters because understanding why degradation occurs could lead to better model training and usage practices.
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