Enhancing the Prototype Network with Local-to-Global Optimization for Few-Shot Relation Extraction (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Relation Extraction (RE) is a task that aims to extract semantic relationships from unstructured text. |
| Approach: | They propose a local optimization strategy that indirectly optimizes the prototypical networks by optimizing the other information contained within the prototypes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on the FewRel 1.0 and FewRela 2.0 datasets. |
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