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Approach: They propose a path-based few-shot setting and a strict path-basic evaluation metric to further explore few- shot HTC tasks.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms those who inject hierarchy through graph encoders on three popular HTC datasets under the few-shot setting.

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