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Approach: They propose a framework that integrates prototype-based data augmentation and relational knowledge distillation to solve the problem of Continual Few-shot Relation Extraction (CFRE).
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the FewRel and TACRED datasets.

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