# Teaching Gemini to spot exploding stars with just a few examples

DevFeed: [Teaching Gemini to spot exploding stars with just a few examples](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/teaching-gemini-to-spot-exploding-stars-with-just-a-few-examples-6886.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://research.google/blog/teaching-gemini-to-spot-exploding-stars-with-just-a-few-examples/>)

Published: 2025-10-20T09:19:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The latest research from Google](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-latest-research-from-google.md>)

Topics: [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [genai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/genai.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>)

Tags: [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [gemini](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini.md>), [genai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genai.md>), [general-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/general-science.md>), [generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [human-computer-interaction-and-visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-computer-interaction-and-visualization.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/science.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how Google's Gemini model was adapted into an astronomy assistant that classifies transient cosmic events and explains its reasoning in plain language. Using few-shot learning with 15 annotated examples per survey, the approach achieved 93% accuracy across three datasets and addresses the limitations of opaque specialized machine learning models.

## Source excerpt

General Science