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Instruction-tuned models follow natural language prompts far more reliably.

FLAN-T5 improved average performance…FLAN-T5 improved average performance across 1,836 tasks by 9.4% over the base model, with instruction tuning enabling zero-shot generalisation to entirely unseen task types.

Context & Methodology

Instruction tuning teaches models to follow prompt structures, making them dramatically more responsive to well-crafted STCO-style prompts.

Applies To

google

Confidence Level

High

Implementation Effort

low

Recommendation

follow

Execution Priority

P1

Put This Evidence to Work

Use the STCO framework to implement findings like this in structured, testable prompts.

Information placed in the middle of a 10K-token context is recalled 20% less accurately than information at the start or.Liu et al., 'Lost in the Middle: How Language Mode…