Challenge: Existing studies cannot generalize well to unseen relations using Prototypical Networks . current approaches are dependent on large amount of labeled data and cannot deal with unseense relations well.
Approach: They propose a HyperNetwork-based Decoupling approach to improve FSRE generalization . they propose FSre models with an encoder, network generator and refined classifiers .
Outcome: The proposed method improves the generalization of few-shot relation extraction models.

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