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title: "Getting Started with Zero-Shot Text Classification"
date: 2026-04-20
source: https://machinelearningmastery.com/getting-started-with-zero-shot-text-classification/
description: "Zero-shot text classification is a way to label text without first training a classifier on your own task-specific dataset."
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# Getting Started with Zero-Shot Text Classification

Zero-shot text classification is a way to label text without first training a classifier on your own task-specific dataset.

*Published: 2026-04-20*