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Approach: They propose a method that leverages triplet paraphrase to pre-train zero-shot label matching ability and uses meta-learning paradigm to learn few-shot instance summarizing ability.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms strong baselines and achieves the best performance on few-shot RE leaderboard.

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