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fewshotcurve
null resultPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
Does few-shot prompting help instruction-tuned models?
what came out
No significant gain on either Qwen2.5-1.5B or 0.5B (McNemar p=0.22, p=1.0) at 4-16x the prompt-token cost -- the near-null transfers across sizes. First cross-model-validated factory study. Honest negative.
method & receipts
- Result: null result — an honest negative, reported as it came out.
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/fewshotcurve