# Setfit Few Shot

> SetFit few-shot learning for efficient intent classification with minimal data

- Skill: `majiayu000/setfit-few-shot` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add majiayu000/setfit-few-shot`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/majiayu000/setfit-few-shot/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: majiayu000 (https://skillmd.com/u/majiayu000)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/majiayu000/setfit-few-shot

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# SetFit Few-Shot Skill

## Capabilities

- Train SetFit models with few examples per class
- Configure contrastive learning settings
- Implement efficient classification pipelines
- Design few-shot training strategies
- Set up model evaluation
- Deploy lightweight classifiers

## Target Processes

- intent-classification-system

## Implementation Details

### SetFit Advantages

1. **Few Examples**: 8-16 examples per class
2. **No Prompts**: No prompt engineering needed
3. **Fast Training**: Minutes vs hours
4. **Small Models**: Sentence transformer base

### Training Process

- Contrastive fine-tuning of embeddings
- Classification head training
- Iterative sampling strategies

### Configuration Options

- Base sentence transformer model
- Number of training examples
- Contrastive learning epochs
- Classification head architecture
- Evaluation metrics

### Best Practices

- Diverse few-shot examples
- Balance class examples
- Use appropriate base model
- Validate on held-out data

### Dependencies

- setfit
- sentence-transformers