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Illustration for: LLM Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning is an Inference Workload

Research Tools & Code

LLM Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning is an Inference Workload

Researchers have identified a fundamental systems mismatch in how zeroth-order fine-tuning for large language models is currently executed. Rather than running ZO algorithms through training infrastructure, the work demonstrates that these methods are inference-dominated and should be routed through serving runtimes like vLLM. On OPT-13B, this architectural shift cuts fine-tuning time by over 8x, from 4.15 hours to 0.51 hours. The finding reshapes how practitioners should think about parameter-efficient adaptation, collapsing the boundary between inference and fine-tuning workloads and opening efficiency gains across the LLM stack.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Extrapolative Weight Averaging Reveals Correctness-Efficiency Frontiers in Code RL

Extrapolative Weight Averaging Reveals Correctness-Efficiency Frontiers in Code RL

Researchers demonstrate that extrapolative weight averaging, a technique that blends model checkpoints beyond linear interpolation, can discover new points on the correctness-efficiency frontier without additional training. Testing on competitive programming tasks with strict time and memory constraints, the work reveals how models trained on progressively harder test suites naturally separate into distinct performance regimes. This finding matters for RL practitioners seeking to optimize multiple objectives simultaneously: it suggests inference-time model blending could replace expensive retraining cycles when balancing competing goals like accuracy and latency.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Research Tools & Code

Stance Detection in Prediction Markets: Addressing Imbalanced Trader Commentary via Counterfactual Augmentation and Market Context

Researchers tackle a real constraint in financial AI: extracting directional signals from noisy, imbalanced trader commentary in prediction markets. By applying RoBERTa with LLM-driven counterfactual data augmentation, the work addresses extreme class imbalance (only 8.7% opposing comments) in a domain where market prices alone miss sentiment nuance. The approach demonstrates how synthetic minority oversampling via language models can improve stance detection in sparse, domain-specific text, offering a template for applying NLP to financial microstructure where labeled data skews heavily toward majority outcomes.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: Reverse Probing: Supervised Token-level Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models in Clinical Text

Research Tools & Code

Reverse Probing: Supervised Token-level Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models in Clinical Text

Reverse Probing addresses a critical gap in clinical AI deployment: token-level uncertainty quantification for long-form text. Rather than generating multiple outputs to estimate confidence, the method extracts uncertainty signals directly from model activations using pre-labeled summaries as training data. This approach is specialized for clinical summarization, where knowing which spans the model doubts most could prevent dangerous hallucinations in high-stakes medical contexts. The work outperforms eight adapted baselines on expert-annotated datasets, signaling that domain-specific UQ techniques may be necessary as LLMs move into regulated industries where explainability and reliability are non-negotiable.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: BIRDNet: Mining and Encoding Boolean Implication Knowledge Graphs as Interpretable Deep Neural Networks

Research Models & Releases

BIRDNet: Mining and Encoding Boolean Implication Knowledge Graphs as Interpretable Deep Neural Networks

Researchers have developed BIRDNet, a neural network architecture that encodes Boolean implication rules mined from tabular data directly into its connectivity structure. Each hidden unit represents a single logical rule binding to exactly two input features, yielding networks that are sparse by construction and fully interpretable. This approach bridges symbolic reasoning and deep learning, addressing a persistent tension in the field: practitioners can now extract human-readable rules from trained models without sacrificing the learning capacity of neural architectures. For enterprises managing knowledge-rich domains like healthcare or finance, this offers a path to regulatory compliance and auditability without resorting to post-hoc explanation techniques.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Code as a Weapon: A Consensus-Labeled Prompt Bank for Measuring Coding-Model Compliance with Malicious-Code Requests

Code as a Weapon: A Consensus-Labeled Prompt Bank for Measuring Coding-Model Compliance with Malicious-Code Requests

Researchers have identified a critical gap in how the field evaluates coding models' resistance to malicious requests. Unlike general-purpose LLMs, specialized code generators that comply with harmful prompts produce immediately executable weapons rather than text, yet existing refusal benchmarks conflate requests for working exploits with requests for theoretical security knowledge and lack standardized measurement. This work argues the AI safety community needs unified, higher-bar evaluation standards for code models specifically, establishing that compliance severity should drive benchmark rigor rather than the reverse.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: YouTube will try to automatically flag AI videos starting this month

Policy & Regulation Products & Apps

YouTube will try to automatically flag AI videos starting this month

YouTube is deploying automated detection to identify AI-generated and heavily altered video content, rolling out enforcement starting May 2026 without waiting for creator disclosure. The shift from opt-in labeling to algorithmic flagging represents a critical inflection point in platform governance: major media infrastructure is now treating synthetic content detection as a baseline compliance layer rather than a creator responsibility. This move signals that large platforms view AI-generated media as sufficiently prevalent and potentially misleading to warrant mandatory technical intervention, setting a precedent that will likely pressure other video and social platforms to adopt similar systems.

The Decoder·6d ago

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Research Tools & Code

MemTrace: Tracing and Attributing Errors in Large Language Model Memory Systems

Researchers have identified a critical gap in how large language models manage information over extended interactions. MemTrace introduces a systematic approach to diagnose where memory systems fail, breaking down the flow of data through retrieval-augmented generation, persistent memory layers, and long-context windows. By mapping failure modes across production systems like Mem0 and EverMemOS, this work shifts memory debugging from guesswork to traceable attribution. For teams building agentic systems or knowledge-intensive applications, the ability to pinpoint whether errors stem from retrieval, synthesis, or corruption directly impacts reliability and deployment confidence.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: Join us for Builders Unscripted Episode 3 on 5/29

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Join us for Builders Unscripted Episode 3 on 5/29

OpenAI's Builders Unscripted series examines how developer workflows are shifting as AI tooling matures. The episode featuring Matias Castillo and Romain Huet explores a fundamental change in the builder archetype: rapid ideation-to-deployment cycles enabled by LLM-powered development environments. This reflects a broader industry inflection where AI infrastructure is moving from research curiosity to embedded developer practice, reshaping how teams think about velocity and feasibility in software creation.

OpenAI (YouTube)·6d ago

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Illustration for: Beyond Lipschitz: Data-Driven Robustness via Discrete Modulus of Continuity

Beyond Lipschitz: Data-Driven Robustness via Discrete Modulus of Continuity

Researchers propose discrete modulus of continuity (DMOC) as a replacement for Lipschitz-based robustness metrics in neural networks. The framework shifts evaluation from model internals to data-distribution alignment, offering finer-grained robustness assessment without requiring architectural access. This addresses a fundamental gap in how practitioners measure adversarial resilience, moving beyond coarse global bounds toward empirically grounded, data-aware guarantees. The architecture-agnostic design makes it broadly applicable across model families and deployment contexts.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures

How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures

Researchers systematically mapped failure modes across three major Vision Language Action architectures, revealing that current safety practices in production VLA systems are misaligned with actual failure signals. Direction reversal emerged as a universal predictor of failure (AUROC 0.79-0.93), while velocity monitoring, the dominant safety mechanism in deployed code, showed near-zero predictive power for continuous architectures. This gap between what engineers monitor and what actually predicts failure has immediate implications for robotics deployment safety and suggests the field needs architecture-aware monitoring strategies rather than one-size-fits-all heuristics.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Anthropic's path to profitability and rising enterprise LLM costs signal that Claude and GPT have crossed a critical threshold: widespread adoption at scale. When companies begin discovering surprise API bills from routine staff usage, it indicates these tools have moved beyond experimental pilots into embedded workflows. This shift matters because it validates the core business model for frontier labs and suggests the market has matured enough to sustain both players through genuine demand rather than hype cycles. For investors and builders, it signals the era of LLM commoditization is underway.

Simon Willison·6d ago

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Illustration for: IPO-Mine: A Toolkit and Dataset for Section-Structured Analysis of Long, Multimodal IPO Documents

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IPO-Mine: A Toolkit and Dataset for Section-Structured Analysis of Long, Multimodal IPO Documents

Researchers have released IPO-Toolkit, an open-source framework addressing a structural gap in financial AI: the absence of standardized datasets for training and evaluating models on SEC filings. IPO documents present acute challenges for LLMs, routinely exceeding 500,000 tokens with inconsistent formatting across sections. This toolkit enables systematic parsing of multimodal filings into normalized text and extracted imagery, creating infrastructure for benchmarking long-context reasoning and document understanding at scale. The release matters because financial document analysis remains a high-value but underserved domain for model evaluation, and standardized datasets historically unlock rapid progress in specialized NLP tasks.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: Stage-wise Distortion-Perception Traversal in Zero-shot Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models

Stage-wise Distortion-Perception Traversal in Zero-shot Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models

Researchers have formulated a principled method for navigating the distortion-perception tradeoff in inverse problems using diffusion models, a longstanding tension in Bayesian inference where reducing reconstruction error typically degrades perceptual fidelity. The MAP-RPS framework enables practitioners to adjust this tradeoff at inference time with a single model, addressing a gap in diffusion-based zero-shot solvers where flexible control has been theoretically underexplored. This matters for practitioners in imaging, restoration, and scientific computing who need runtime control over output quality without retraining, and signals maturation in how diffusion models handle classical inverse problem constraints.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Towards Reliable Multilingual LLMs-as-a-Judge: An Empirical Study

Towards Reliable Multilingual LLMs-as-a-Judge: An Empirical Study

Evaluating generated text across languages remains a bottleneck for global AI deployment, yet most LLM-as-judge research concentrates on English. This empirical study tackles the harder problem: how to build reliable evaluation systems for mid- and low-resource languages without abundant training data. By testing instruction translation, monolingual versus multilingual fine-tuning approaches, and model scaling across Spanish and Basque alongside English, the work surfaces practical trade-offs for practitioners scaling evaluation infrastructure beyond wealthy-language markets. The extension of meta-evaluation benchmarks to Basque signals a shift toward rigor in underserved language contexts, directly affecting how teams validate multilingual model outputs in production.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: Beyond Binary Moral Judgment: Modeling Ethical Pluralism in AI

Beyond Binary Moral Judgment: Modeling Ethical Pluralism in AI

Researchers propose a framework that moves AI moral reasoning beyond binary right/wrong judgments by modeling decisions across multiple ethical theories simultaneously. Rather than forcing autonomous systems into scalar outputs, the work treats ethical pluralism as a probability distribution over competing normative frameworks, paired with a 450-case benchmark spanning 15 subtheories. This addresses a critical gap in AI accountability: systems making high-stakes decisions in healthcare, criminal justice, and policy need to surface competing ethical considerations and their tradeoffs, not hide reasoning behind opaque binary choices. The approach signals growing recognition that acceptable AI governance requires transparency about which ethical lens is being applied, not pretense of universal moral truth.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Understanding Generalization and Forgetting in In-Context Continual Learning

Understanding Generalization and Forgetting in In-Context Continual Learning

Researchers have formalized the first theoretical model of how transformers perform continual learning within a single inference pass, addressing a critical gap between ICL theory and real-world deployment. The framework models sequential task handling through shared attention mechanisms, deriving error bounds for linear and masked attention variants. This work matters because production LLM prompts routinely stack heterogeneous tasks, yet existing theory assumes single-task settings. Understanding whether models implicitly manage task boundaries and interference during inference has direct implications for prompt engineering, multi-task reasoning reliability, and whether in-context learning truly avoids catastrophic forgetting or merely masks it.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Expressive Power of Floating-Point Neural Networks with Arbitrary Reduction Orders and Inexact Activation Implementations

Researchers are closing a gap between neural network theory and practice by analyzing how floating-point arithmetic actually constrains model expressivity. Prior work assumed perfect real-number math or oversimplified execution models, but this study accounts for realistic hardware behaviors: arbitrary operation ordering and imprecise activation functions with bounded errors. The finding matters because it bridges the disconnect between what we prove networks can compute versus what they actually do under finite precision, potentially reshaping how we think about numerical stability, model robustness, and the theoretical limits of deployed systems.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: The Importance of Being Statistically Earnest: A Critical Re-evaluation of GSM-Symbolic

The Importance of Being Statistically Earnest: A Critical Re-evaluation of GSM-Symbolic

A new statistical critique challenges the GSM-Symbolic benchmark's core finding that LLMs lack genuine reasoning. Researchers reanalyzed 20 open-weight models using mixed-effects modeling and discovered that only half showed statistically significant performance degradation under the original conditions. Critically, they uncovered a confounding variable: GSM-Symbolic's dataset contains a systematically skewed distribution of larger integers compared to the baseline GSM8K, potentially explaining observed performance gaps rather than reasoning deficits. This work matters because GSM-Symbolic has shaped recent discourse on LLM reasoning limitations. The finding suggests benchmark design flaws can drive premature conclusions about model capabilities, forcing the community to reconsider which performance drops reflect genuine reasoning gaps versus experimental artifacts.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: Latent-Conditioned Parameterized Quantum Circuits as Universal Approximators for Distributions over Quantum States

Research Models & Releases

Latent-Conditioned Parameterized Quantum Circuits as Universal Approximators for Distributions over Quantum States

Researchers have proven that hybrid quantum-classical neural networks can universally approximate probability distributions over quantum states, a theoretical breakthrough that bridges generative modeling and quantum computing. This work addresses a fundamental bottleneck in quantum simulation and chemistry: preparing diverse quantum ensembles efficiently. By letting classical networks learn to condition quantum circuit parameters on latent variables, the framework sidesteps the prohibitive cost of state-by-state preparation in both near-term and fault-tolerant quantum regimes. The result extends classical universal approximation theory into the quantum domain, potentially unlocking new pathways for quantum machine learning applications that require sampling from complex state distributions rather than preparing single targets.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Research Tools & Code

History-aware adaptive reduced-order models via incremental singular value decomposition

Researchers propose an adaptive reduced-order modeling framework using incremental singular value decomposition to address a core challenge in scientific computing: maintaining accuracy when simulation dynamics drift beyond training regimes. By encoding historical observations into an evolving basis, the method enables online corrections without retraining entire surrogate models, a capability increasingly relevant as ML accelerates physics simulations and engineering workflows. The approach bridges classical numerical methods with adaptive learning, offering practical value for practitioners deploying ROMs in production environments where offline data cannot capture all operational scenarios.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Optimal ridge regularization revisited

Researchers have developed a convergent iterative method for selecting optimal L2 regularization strength in ridge regression, bridging theory and practice across sample regimes. The work matters because regularization tuning remains a foundational hyperparameter problem in supervised learning, and this approach achieves near-optimal generalization with minimal computational overhead. For practitioners building production ML systems, especially in underparameterized settings where ridge regression still dominates, this offers a principled alternative to cross-validation that scales efficiently without sacrificing performance across varying data geometries and noise profiles.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Optimal Data Acquisition for Reinforcement Learning: A Large Deviations Perspective

Optimal Data Acquisition for Reinforcement Learning: A Large Deviations Perspective

Researchers have formalized a large deviations framework that quantifies data efficiency in reinforcement learning, addressing a critical bottleneck in real-world deployment where interactions carry high cost or safety risk. The work establishes an exponential decay metric for policy-selection error and derives a nested optimization characterization, laying theoretical groundwork for systems that must learn from limited, expensive feedback loops. This matters for healthcare, robotics, and operations research where sample efficiency directly translates to deployment feasibility and cost control.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Sense Representations Are Inducible Interfaces

Research Models & Releases

Sense Representations Are Inducible Interfaces

Researchers have developed ACROS, a technique that retrofits explicit semantic structure into frozen pretrained language models without retraining. By injecting a gated residual pathway, the method enables three distinct capabilities: word-sense disambiguation competitive with traditional baselines, fine-grained lexical steering via proxy objectives, and cross-lingual transfer with minimal performance degradation. This work matters because it decouples semantic interpretability from model pretraining, suggesting that meaning decomposition can be induced as a modular interface rather than baked into architecture. For practitioners, it opens a path to add interpretability and control to existing models without the cost of retraining.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

Business & Funding

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

Cognition's $1B Series B at a $25B valuation signals investor confidence in AI-native software engineering, even as the startup's $492 annualized revenue run rate raises questions about unit economics at scale. The 2.5x valuation jump in eight months reflects a broader bet that coding assistants will become mission-critical infrastructure, though the gap between valuation and revenue suggests the market is pricing in significant future adoption rather than current traction. For the AI landscape, this validates the shift toward vertical AI applications over horizontal model plays, and underscores how quickly capital is flowing to startups perceived as winners in the post-LLM era.

TechCrunch - AI·6d ago

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Illustration for: Activation Steering for Synthetic Data Generation: The Role of Diversity in Downstream Safety Detection

Activation Steering for Synthetic Data Generation: The Role of Diversity in Downstream Safety Detection

Researchers demonstrate that activation steering, a parameter-efficient technique for steering model outputs, can generate synthetic training data for safety classifiers. The work introduces diversity as a previously unmeasured quality dimension in steering-generated datasets, revealing a critical tradeoff: stronger steering improves concept alignment but degrades response variety. This finding matters for safety teams building classifiers on limited real-world violation examples, suggesting that naive steering strength tuning may produce brittle, overfitted detectors. The systematic evaluation across multiple models and methods provides practical guidance for practitioners balancing synthetic data quality against downstream generalization.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Research Models & Releases

Applications of temporal graph learning for predicting the dynamics of biological systems

Researchers are extending transformer-based foundation models into temporal domains by representing cellular states as evolving gene regulatory networks rather than static snapshots. This work-in-progress bridges computational biology and graph neural networks, addressing a critical gap in how AI systems model developmental dynamics. The shift from single-cell transcriptomics to pseudotime-resolved graph structures could unlock better predictions of disease progression and cellular differentiation, expanding foundation model applicability beyond static representation learning into mechanistic biological simulation.

arXiv cs.LG·6d ago

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Illustration for: Interpretability-Guided Layer Selection over Subspace Projection: SAEs as Stethoscopes, Not Scalpels, for Raw Task Vector Model Editing

Interpretability-Guided Layer Selection over Subspace Projection: SAEs as Stethoscopes, Not Scalpels, for Raw Task Vector Model Editing

Sparse Autoencoders have been positioned as a precision tool for surgical model editing, but new empirical work on Gemma-3-4B-IT reveals a critical limitation: projecting task vectors onto SAE feature subspaces discards roughly 97% of modification energy, producing no meaningful gains across mathematical reasoning tasks. The finding reframes SAEs as diagnostic instruments rather than surgical interventions, forcing the interpretability community to reconsider how feature-level understanding translates to effective model steering without full retraining.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: MaskClaw: Edge-Side Personalized Privacy Arbitration for GUI Agents with Behavior-Driven Skill Evolution

Research Policy & Regulation

MaskClaw: Edge-Side Personalized Privacy Arbitration for GUI Agents with Behavior-Driven Skill Evolution

MaskClaw addresses a critical vulnerability in GUI agents: screenshots captured for task execution routinely expose sensitive data like credentials, medical records, and confidential workflows before privacy filtering occurs. This paper proposes an edge-side arbitration layer that applies user and task-specific policies to decide whether to allow, mask, or request confirmation before raw images leave the device. The approach shifts privacy enforcement from cloud-side VLM reasoning (which uploads first, filters later) to local decision-making, enabling agents to operate across applications while respecting organizational and individual data boundaries. This reflects growing tension between agent autonomy and data governance as multimodal systems become workplace infrastructure.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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Illustration for: GraphSteal: Structural Knowledge Stealing from Graph RAG via Traversal Reconstruction

Research Policy & Regulation

GraphSteal: Structural Knowledge Stealing from Graph RAG via Traversal Reconstruction

Graph RAG systems, which embed structured knowledge graphs into retrieval pipelines to enhance LLM reasoning, face a novel privacy vulnerability. Researchers demonstrate that adversaries can reconstruct hidden knowledge graph topology through adaptive black-box queries, turning these systems into structural oracles. This attack surface emerges precisely because Graph RAG's power lies in exposing relational structure. The finding signals that production deployments must now defend not just against data exfiltration but against inference-time graph reconstruction, reshaping threat models for enterprise knowledge systems.

arXiv cs.CL·6d ago

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