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However, HRRP-based target recognition methods using closed datasets exhibit limitations when it comes to identifying new classes of targets. The scarcity of samples for new classes leads to overfitting during the deep learning process, and the similarity in the scattering structures of different ships, combined with the significant structural differences among samples of the same ship, contribute to a high level of confusion among targets. To address these challenges, this paper proposed Task-Specific Mate-learning (TSML) for few-shot HRRP. Firstly, a Task-Adaptive Mixed Transfer (TAMT) strategy is proposed, which combines basic learning with meta-learning, to reduce the likelihood of overfitting and enhance adaptability for recognizing new classes of ships. Secondly, a Prototype Network is introduced to enable the recognition of new classes of targets with limited samples. Additionally, a Space-Adjusted Meta Embedding (SAME) is proposed based on the Prototype Network. This embedding function, designed for HRRP data, modifies the distances between samples in meta-tasks by increasing the distances between samples from different ships and decreasing the distances between samples from the same ship. The proposed method is evaluated based on an actual measured HRRP dataset and the experimental results prove that the proposed method can more accurately recognize the unknown ship classes with a small number of labels by learning the known classes of ships. 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