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Illustration for: Prism: A Plug-in Reproducible Infrastructure for Scalable Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

Tools & Code Research

Prism: A Plug-in Reproducible Infrastructure for Scalable Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

Prism addresses a critical friction point in multimodal LLM research: the lack of standardized infrastructure for continual instruction tuning. Current MCIT work requires researchers to fork and modify base model codebases, creating isolated implementations that resist comparison and slow iteration. By decoupling algorithmic innovation from engineering scaffolding, Prism enables plug-and-play method development and reproducible benchmarking. This matters because continual adaptation to new tasks is essential for real-world deployment, yet the field has been bottlenecked by implementation overhead rather than fundamental breakthroughs. A shared codebase accelerates the pace at which the community can validate and combine techniques.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Looped Diffusion Language Models

Research Models & Releases

Looped Diffusion Language Models

Researchers propose LoopMDM, a technique that recycles early-to-middle transformer layers during training to improve masked diffusion models, a non-autoregressive alternative to standard language models. The approach achieves 3.3x training efficiency gains without adding parameters, while enabling variable compute scaling at inference time. This work matters because it directly challenges the architectural assumptions underlying transformer design for diffusion-based language modeling, a space gaining traction as an alternative to autoregressive scaling. The efficiency gains suggest masked diffusion could become competitive for production deployments where training cost and inference flexibility are critical.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Language Models Need Sleep

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Language Models Need Sleep

Researchers propose a biologically-inspired consolidation mechanism that lets transformer models offload context management to periodic 'sleep' phases, converting recent attention patterns into persistent fast weights via state-space model blocks. This addresses a fundamental scaling bottleneck: as context windows grow, attention computation becomes prohibitively expensive. By shifting expensive recurrent passes offline, the approach maintains inference latency while handling longer horizons. Early results on synthetic reasoning and math tasks suggest the technique could reshape how production systems balance memory, compute, and speed, particularly for agents requiring extended task horizons without real-time slowdown.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Illustration for: Forgetting in Language Models: Capacity, Optimization, and Self-Generated Replay

Forgetting in Language Models: Capacity, Optimization, and Self-Generated Replay

Researchers demonstrate that language models can mitigate catastrophic forgetting during continual learning by generating their own replay data, sidestepping the need for stored exemplars. The work reveals a hard constraint: models pretrained near saturation cannot learn new tasks without degrading prior knowledge, regardless of replay strategy. This finding reshapes how practitioners should think about model capacity planning and finetuning workflows. When capacity permits, self-generated replay enables faster learning rates and fewer training steps, unlocking a previously unavailable efficiency frontier for multitask adaptation.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Goal-driven Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Robust Decision-Making Under Model Uncertainty

Goal-driven Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Robust Decision-Making Under Model Uncertainty

Researchers introduce GoBOED, a framework that reorients Bayesian experimental design toward decision outcomes rather than raw parameter uncertainty reduction. Traditional BOED minimizes model ambiguity broadly, but GoBOED uses a differentiable decision layer to focus information gathering only on parameter dimensions that materially affect downstream choices. This shift matters for practitioners deploying ML under model uncertainty: fewer, cheaper experiments can yield better decisions when the design process knows what actually matters for the task. The theoretical result that irrelevant parameter directions don't degrade gradients provides formal grounding for this pragmatic reframing.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: OrpQuant: Geometric Orthogonal Residual Projection for Multiplier-Free Power-of-Two Transformer Quantization

Research Hardware & Infra

OrpQuant: Geometric Orthogonal Residual Projection for Multiplier-Free Power-of-Two Transformer Quantization

OrpQuant tackles a fundamental geometric constraint in ultra-low-bit transformer quantization by combining algorithmic and hardware design. Power-of-Two quantization replaces expensive multiply-accumulate operations with bit-shifts, enabling edge deployment of LLMs and vision models, but suffers from poor angular resolution in high-dimensional spaces at sub-4-bit precision. This work's orthogonal residual projection framework directly addresses that structural flaw, potentially unlocking practical on-device inference for models currently too large for mobile and embedded systems. Success here would reshape edge AI economics.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: DiscoverPhysics: Benchmarking LLMs for Out-of-the-Box Scientific Thinking

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DiscoverPhysics: Benchmarking LLMs for Out-of-the-Box Scientific Thinking

Researchers have built DiscoverPhysics, a benchmark that tests whether frontier LLMs can genuinely reason about novel physical systems rather than simply recalling established science. The benchmark presents agents with 22 simulated worlds governed by non-standard physics, from screened gravity to hidden particles, requiring iterative experimentation and hypothesis refinement. This work directly challenges claims about LLM reasoning capability by isolating genuine discovery from memorization, a critical distinction as models are increasingly deployed for scientific tasks. The result matters for understanding whether current systems can handle truly novel problem domains or merely interpolate training data.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Automated Benchmark Auditing for AI Agents and Large Language Models

Research Tools & Code

Automated Benchmark Auditing for AI Agents and Large Language Models

A new auditing framework exposes systematic flaws in how AI benchmarks are designed and evaluated. Researchers deployed Auto Benchmark Audit across 168 frontier benchmarks spanning nine domains, discovering that over a quarter contain critical defects: ambiguous specifications, environment conflicts, and incorrect ground truths. This finding undermines confidence in how we measure LLM progress and suggests the field's evaluation infrastructure has outpaced its quality controls. For practitioners relying on benchmarks to guide model selection and research direction, the implication is stark: published performance numbers may reflect benchmark brittleness as much as genuine capability.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Global Convergence of Wasserstein Policy Gradient for Entropy-Regularized Reinforcement Learning

Researchers have resolved a long-standing theoretical gap in Wasserstein policy gradient methods, a reinforcement learning technique that leverages optimal transport geometry for continuous control. The work addresses why standard convergence proofs fail when policies are coupled through Bellman recursion rather than static objectives, and establishes global convergence guarantees by carefully controlling the regularity of the soft Q-function across policy updates. This matters because WPG is increasingly used in robotics and continuous-control domains, and formal convergence analysis removes a barrier to wider adoption and principled algorithm design in production RL systems.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: StakeBench: Evaluating Language Understanding Grounded in Market Commitment

Research Models & Releases

StakeBench: Evaluating Language Understanding Grounded in Market Commitment

StakeBench reframes NLP evaluation by anchoring language understanding to real financial commitment rather than human annotation. The framework links 560K comments from prediction markets to verified trading behavior, position changes, and odds shifts, creating a supervision signal grounded in revealed preference rather than subjective labeling. This addresses a fundamental weakness in financial NLP benchmarks: models trained on observer-labeled data often miss what speakers actually committed to in the market. The four diagnostic tasks measure whether models detect commitment signals, identify market sides, forecast trading actions, and project collective odds. For AI teams building financial reasoning systems, this represents a methodological shift toward outcome-aligned evaluation that could expose gaps in models trained on traditional annotated datasets.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Illustration for: Active Query Synthesis for Preference Learning

Active Query Synthesis for Preference Learning

Researchers propose Info-Synth, an active learning framework that tackles two critical bottlenecks in preference learning systems. The work introduces a confidence-aware response model that recognizes when pairwise comparisons yield unreliable signals (between near-identical or vastly dissimilar items), then synthesizes optimal queries rather than exhaustively evaluating candidate pools. This addresses a fundamental scaling problem for preference-based AI systems used in ranking, recommendation, and reinforcement learning from human feedback. The approach reduces computational overhead while improving label efficiency, making human-in-the-loop AI training more practical at scale.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: WhoSaidIt: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation for Text-Based Multilingual Speaker-Attribute Classification

Research Tools & Code

WhoSaidIt: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation for Text-Based Multilingual Speaker-Attribute Classification

Researchers have developed a human-LLM collaborative framework that treats annotation disagreement as a feature rather than noise, using iterative expert feedback and LLM rationales to stabilize labels for multilingual speaker-attribute classification. The WhoSaidIt dataset demonstrates a practical approach to handling the inherent ambiguity in demographic inference across languages and cultures, where implicit social cues vary significantly. This work matters because it surfaces a scalable pattern for improving dataset quality under resource constraints: leverage models to generate interpretable reasoning, then target human effort where disagreement is highest. The framework's emphasis on explicit rationales also provides a testbed for understanding how transparency in model reasoning affects downstream performance, a concern increasingly central to production ML systems handling sensitive demographic tasks.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Illustration for: Rethinking Weak Supervision in Anomaly Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmark

Research Tools & Code

Rethinking Weak Supervision in Anomaly Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmark

Weakly supervised anomaly detection has fragmented into three isolated research tracks, each addressing different label constraints but lacking unified evaluation. WSADBench bridges this gap by establishing the first cross-modal benchmark spanning incomplete, inexact, and inaccurate supervision scenarios. Testing 36 algorithms across four modalities with over 700K experiments, the benchmark reveals performance boundaries and shared mechanics across approaches, from specialized WSAD methods to emerging tabular foundation models. This standardization matters because anomaly detection remains critical for production systems where perfect labels are expensive, and clarity on which supervision strategy works best under specific constraints directly influences deployment decisions across fraud detection, medical imaging, and industrial monitoring.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Conditional KRR: Injecting Unpenalized Features into Kernel Methods with Applications to Kernel Thresholding

Researchers formalize conditional kernel ridge regression, a method that decouples feature specification from regularization in kernel learning. By treating designated features as unpenalized and applying standard KRR only to residuals, this approach bridges classical linear regression and modern kernel methods. The work addresses a practical tension in kernel-based learning: how to incorporate domain knowledge or structural constraints without forcing them through the same regularization lens as learned components. This matters for practitioners building interpretable models where some features deserve different treatment than others.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Paris 2.0: A Decentralized Diffusion Model for Video Generation

Research Models & Releases

Paris 2.0: A Decentralized Diffusion Model for Video Generation

Paris 2.0 demonstrates that video generation can scale beyond centralized GPU clusters, achieving 2x better quality metrics than monolithic baselines on matched compute budgets. This continuation of the decentralized diffusion model lineage signals a structural shift in how frontier video models might be trained, potentially lowering barriers to entry for organizations outside hyperscaler ecosystems. The result matters less for immediate product impact than for validating that temporal coherence, the hardest constraint in distributed video work, is no longer a blocker.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Research Models & Releases

Neuronal Stochastic Attention Circuit (NSAC) for Probabilistic Representation Learning

Researchers propose NSAC, a continuous-time attention mechanism that quantifies uncertainty through stochastic differential equations and biologically-inspired gating derived from C. elegans neural circuits. The architecture generates probabilistic attention weights via logistic-normal distributions, addressing a gap in uncertainty quantification for neural representation learning. This bridges neuroscience-inspired computing with modern deep learning, potentially influencing how future architectures handle epistemic uncertainty in sequential and continuous domains.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Accelerating Bayesian inverse design in computational fluid dynamics using neural operators

Research Tools & Code

Accelerating Bayesian inverse design in computational fluid dynamics using neural operators

Neural operators are proving viable as embedded surrogates within Bayesian inference loops for aerodynamic design, addressing a long-standing bottleneck in physics-informed ML. The work demonstrates that learned operator models can replace expensive CFD simulations during MCMC sampling while maintaining posterior fidelity, even in shock-dominated regimes where surrogate reliability has historically been questioned. This bridges operator learning and uncertainty quantification, opening pathways for faster inverse design in engineering domains where simulation cost has been prohibitive.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: When Gradients Collide: Failure Modes of Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for LLM Judges

When Gradients Collide: Failure Modes of Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for LLM Judges

Researchers have identified a critical failure mode in multi-objective prompt optimization for LLM judges: when gradient-based methods attempt to optimize across multiple evaluation criteria simultaneously, they lose specificity and frequently fail to improve the base prompt at all. The study reveals that shared processing of multiple objectives causes gradient quality to degrade by 59 percent, suggesting that textual gradient methods lack the conflict-resolution mechanisms available in traditional multi-task learning. This finding matters for practitioners building domain-specific evaluation systems, as it exposes fundamental limitations in current automation approaches and points toward the need for new decomposition strategies.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Confidence and Calibration of Activation Oracles for Reliable Interpretation of Language Model Internals

Confidence and Calibration of Activation Oracles for Reliable Interpretation of Language Model Internals

Activation oracles, which translate model internals into human-readable text, suffer from poorly understood confidence calibration. This work benchmarks six uncertainty quantification methods across two Qwen models, finding that bootstrap mode frequency dramatically outperforms log-probability baselines (5.7% vs 25.5% calibration error on Qwen3-8B). The result matters because unreliable confidence scores undermine interpretability tools' credibility for safety audits and mechanistic research, and establishing calibration standards could accelerate adoption of oracle-based inspection techniques across the interpretability community.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Illustration for: Peak-Then-Collapse and the Four Interface Channels of Knowledge-Graph Tool Use

Research Tools & Code

Peak-Then-Collapse and the Four Interface Channels of Knowledge-Graph Tool Use

Researchers training a 7B language model on knowledge-graph tool use discovered a critical failure mode: performance climbs steadily then abruptly collapses to zero, regardless of reward design tweaks. The finding exposes a fundamental gap between tool APIs that provide natural-language feedback (like Python interpreters) and those that don't. This challenges assumptions about scaling tool-use training and suggests current RLVR recipes may hit hard ceilings on structured retrieval tasks without rethinking interface design itself.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Illustration for: CITYREP: A Unified Benchmark for Urban Representations Across Cities, Tasks, and Modalities

Research Tools & Code

CITYREP: A Unified Benchmark for Urban Representations Across Cities, Tasks, and Modalities

CityRep addresses a critical gap in urban AI evaluation by introducing the first spatially-aware benchmark for city-scale representation learning. Current urban foundation models suffer from spatial data leakage in train-test splits, masking poor cross-city generalization. This benchmark standardizes evaluation across heterogeneous data modalities, multiple cities, and diverse downstream tasks through a unified alignment framework. The work matters because urban AI is becoming infrastructure-critical for smart cities, autonomous systems, and climate modeling, yet lacks rigorous evaluation standards. CityRep's spatial-split methodology sets a precedent for domain-specific benchmarking that prevents inflated performance claims.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Length Generalization with Log-Depth Recurrent Units

Research Models & Releases

Length Generalization with Log-Depth Recurrent Units

Researchers introduce MLP-LDRU, a recurrent architecture designed to overcome length generalization failures that plague both RNNs and transformers. By leveraging parallel reduction and associativity-biased operators, the model achieves near-perfect accuracy across regular language benchmarks when trained on longer sequences than baseline methods. This addresses a fundamental limitation in sequence modeling: the inability to reliably extrapolate beyond training distribution, which has implications for any task requiring compositional reasoning over variable-length inputs.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Everything at Every Scale: Scale-Invariant Diffusion with Continuous Super-Resolution

Research Models & Releases

Everything at Every Scale: Scale-Invariant Diffusion with Continuous Super-Resolution

Researchers have unified image generation and super-resolution into a single diffusion framework by treating scale as an explicit coordinate in the noise-reversal process. SKILD leverages scale invariance, a property observed in both natural images and physical systems, to train one model that handles both tasks through a spectrum-matched forward process. This consolidation matters because it suggests diffusion architectures can be fundamentally reorganized around physical principles rather than task-specific pipelines, potentially reshaping how generative models handle multi-scale problems across domains.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: CausaLab: A Scalable Environment for Interactive Causal Discovery Toward AI Scientists

Research Tools & Code

CausaLab: A Scalable Environment for Interactive Causal Discovery Toward AI Scientists

CausaLab addresses a critical gap in LLM agent evaluation by testing whether models can recover causal mechanisms, not just solve tasks. The environment forces agents to both identify causal graphs and infer structural equations from synthetic laboratory experiments, moving beyond memorization-based benchmarks. This matters because autonomous scientific discovery requires agents to reason about causality rigorously. The work signals growing focus on mechanistic understanding as a prerequisite for AI systems that can conduct genuine research rather than pattern-match solutions.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Research Models & Releases

A Multimodal 3D Foundation Model for Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Enables Few-Shot Segmentation, Classification, and Deblurring

Researchers have developed a 3D foundation model pretrained on large-scale light sheet microscopy datasets, addressing a critical gap in biomedical imaging where annotation costs have historically blocked deep learning adoption. The model enables few-shot learning for segmentation, classification, and image deblurring across diverse organisms and staining protocols, suggesting that foundation model scaling principles now extend meaningfully into volumetric scientific imaging. This work signals growing momentum in domain-specific foundation models beyond text and 2D vision, with implications for how specialized fields can leverage self-supervised pretraining to reduce labeling burden.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Research Tools & Code

Retrieval-Augmented Detection of Potentially Abusive Clauses in Chilean Terms of Service

Researchers have built a retrieval-augmented generation system to automatically detect abusive clauses in Chilean Terms of Service, addressing a real gap where legal standards around good faith and contractual imbalance resist simple rule-based detection. The work demonstrates how medium-weight open models, paired with hybrid retrieval and reranking, can tackle domain-specific legal compliance at scale without requiring frontier infrastructure. The release of a 100-contract Chilean corpus signals growing interest in applying LLMs to consumer protection in non-English jurisdictions, a landscape where regulatory enforcement often lags technical capability.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: STORM: Internalized Modeling for Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Video-Language Models

Research Models & Releases

STORM: Internalized Modeling for Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Video-Language Models

Researchers propose STORM, a framework that shifts video reasoning from external chain-of-thought pipelines toward internalized latent modeling within vision-language models. Rather than serializing temporal evidence into text or repeatedly re-encoding frames, the approach teaches LVLMs to track motion and state evolution through bounded continuous trajectories before verbalization. This addresses a real efficiency bottleneck in video understanding: existing methods layer expensive post-hoc reasoning on top of frozen models, inflating latency and engineering overhead. The work signals growing pressure to embed temporal reasoning natively into model architecture rather than bolting it on downstream, a shift that could reshape how video-capable systems are designed.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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Illustration for: AdvantageFlow: Advantage-Weighted Least Squares for RL in Flow Models

Research Models & Releases

AdvantageFlow: Advantage-Weighted Least Squares for RL in Flow Models

AdvantageFlow shifts reinforcement learning for diffusion models toward forward-process optimization, addressing a core instability problem that plagued prior reverse-process approaches. By weighting advantages during forward prediction and stabilizing via rollout regularization, the method achieves measurable gains over Flow-GRPO and negative-aware baselines on Stable Diffusion 3.5. This matters because RL-driven image generation remains computationally expensive and brittle; a more stable forward-process path could lower barriers for fine-tuning generative models at scale and unlock new reward-alignment strategies beyond current industry practice.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Learning in Low-Dimensional Subspaces: Orthogonal Bottlenecks for Reinforcement Learning

Learning in Low-Dimensional Subspaces: Orthogonal Bottlenecks for Reinforcement Learning

Researchers propose orthogonal bottlenecks, a lightweight architectural constraint that forces deep RL agents to learn within low-dimensional subspaces without auxiliary losses or algorithm changes. The work bridges theory and practice by proving that when bottleneck width matches the intrinsic rank of optimal value functions, expressivity is preserved while gradient dynamics simplify. This addresses a fundamental inefficiency in modern RL: agents routinely operate in high-dimensional feature spaces despite evidence that task structure is inherently compact. The technique could reshape how practitioners design RL systems, trading minimal architectural overhead for cleaner optimization and potential sample efficiency gains.

arXiv cs.LG·May 25

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Illustration for: Forgotten Words: Benchmarking NeoBERT for Dementia Detection in Low-Resource Conversational Filipino and English Speech

Research Models & Releases

Forgotten Words: Benchmarking NeoBERT for Dementia Detection in Low-Resource Conversational Filipino and English Speech

Researchers have built the first NLP pipeline for dementia detection in Filipino speech, addressing a critical gap in clinical AI that has remained almost entirely English-focused. By constructing a parallel bilingual dataset of 4,000 manually translated transcripts from DementiaBank, the team isolates language effects from domain-specific cognitive markers, then benchmarks five transformer architectures including NeoBERT in this low-resource setting. The work matters because code-switching populations like the Philippines have been systematically excluded from clinical NLP validation, yet they represent millions of potential users. This establishes both a methodological template for non-English clinical AI and evidence that existing models degrade predictably when domain and language effects interact.

arXiv cs.CL·May 25

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