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To validate the robustness of MFDP-LeafNet, we have conducted experiments across a diverse set of datasets, including three plant leaf datasets (Swedish Leaf, Flavia Leaf, Egyptian Plant Leaf), two widely used FSL benchmark datasets (MiniImageNet and FC100), and one plant disease dataset (PlantVillage). The experimental results across all datasets demonstrate that MFDP-LeafNet achieves competitive or improved performance compared with state-of-the-art models. 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