Challenge: Experimental results show that pre-trained language models outperform standard prompt learning in zero-shot settings.
Approach: They propose a pipeline for annotating and filtering examples from unlabeled examples . they propose 'model bias validation' method that utilizes unlabed examples as validation set .
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms standard prompt learning on six text classification tasks.

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Challenge: Existing solutions to zero-shot text classification use pre-trained language models or large-scale annotated data.
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Challenge: a tutorial aims to introduce NLP researchers to the latest techniques for learning from little-to-no data . aims at bringing interested researchers up to speed about the latest and ongoing techniques .
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