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    Language, speech & LLMs· 2021

    Finetuned Language Models Are Zero-Shot Learners

    Jason Wei (first author) · 2021

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    arXiv 2109.01652OpenAlex W3198002980

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    Why it matters

    Established instruction tuning as a powerful route to zero-shot task generalization.

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    First released
    2021 (from arXiv 2109.01652)
    Citations
    5,503 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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    Score
    0.558 · computed rank 182 · consensus 0.76, must-read 1, citations percentile 0.656 (2020s · language), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

    Editor's notes

    • Readability check: pass: Instruction tuning, simply shown. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)

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