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Illustration for: Statistical Embeddings for Similarity, Retrieval, and Interpretable Alignment of Numeric Tabular Datasets

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Statistical Embeddings for Similarity, Retrieval, and Interpretable Alignment of Numeric Tabular Datasets

A new method addresses a critical gap in how LLMs handle numeric tabular data, which dominates scientific workflows but lacks native representation in foundation models. The approach combines exploratory data analysis descriptors with sentence transformers and Canonical Correlation Analysis to enable cross-dataset similarity and alignment without requiring shared variable definitions. This work matters because it bridges the disconnect between LLM strengths in text and the practical need to reason over heterogeneous numeric datasets at scale, opening pathways for more interpretable dataset discovery and transfer learning across scientific domains.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

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Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

Alibaba's Qwen team has unified embodied AI across manipulation, navigation, and egocentric tasks into a single foundation model, moving robotics beyond task-specific silos. Qwen-VLA extends vision-language reasoning into continuous action generation via a diffusion-based decoder, trained on heterogeneous robot trajectories and human demonstrations. This represents a meaningful shift toward generalist embodied models that could reduce fragmentation in robotics research and lower barriers for deploying multi-task agents across different hardware platforms and environments.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: Neural Operator-Based Surrogate Model for CFD:Helical Coil Steam Generator in Small Modular Reactor

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Neural Operator-Based Surrogate Model for CFD:Helical Coil Steam Generator in Small Modular Reactor

Researchers have demonstrated a practical pathway for deploying neural operators as surrogate models in safety-critical infrastructure, specifically targeting real-time thermal simulation for small modular reactors. By combining reduced-order modeling with operator-based neural networks, the work addresses a fundamental constraint in digital twin deployment: CFD-level accuracy without prohibitive computational latency. This bridges a gap between high-fidelity physics simulation and operational feasibility, with implications for how AI-accelerated surrogates might scale into regulated industrial domains where both speed and trustworthiness matter.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: Digitally enriching a screening population for pancreatic cancer using routine blood-based measures and clinical histories

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Digitally enriching a screening population for pancreatic cancer using routine blood-based measures and clinical histories

Researchers deployed a Transformer-based neural network with multi-head attention to predict pancreatic cancer risk years in advance using longitudinal clinical records and blood test sequences. The model risk-stratified a cohort of 183,098 patients (6,017 with cancer, 177,081 controls) to enable targeted screening where none currently exists. This work exemplifies how sequence models trained on real-world temporal medical data can surface hidden disease trajectories, shifting early detection from reactive diagnosis to proactive population enrichment. Success here could reshape screening economics across other low-incidence, high-mortality cancers.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: Loong: A Human-Like Long Document Translation Agent with Observe-and-Act Adaptive Context Selection

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Loong: A Human-Like Long Document Translation Agent with Observe-and-Act Adaptive Context Selection

Loong introduces a reinforcement-learning-driven translation agent that mimics human reasoning to navigate the core LLM constraint: context windows. Rather than naively stuffing all available history into prompts, the system maintains a structured memory of summaries, examples, and entities, then learns which pieces matter for each translation decision. This addresses a persistent gap in document-level work where global coherence clashes with token limits. The adaptive context selection approach signals a broader shift toward agents that reason about their own information needs instead of relying on static retrieval or attention mechanisms.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: LLUMI: Improving LLM Writing Assistance for Mental Health Support with Online Community Feedback

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LLUMI: Improving LLM Writing Assistance for Mental Health Support with Online Community Feedback

Researchers propose LLUMI, a dual-component LLM system designed for mental health support that prioritizes privacy and data sovereignty by running on-premises rather than relying on cloud-based proprietary models. The framework pairs a generation model with an improvement model trained on Reddit community feedback, addressing a critical gap where mental health applications demand both safety guarantees and protection of sensitive user data. This work signals growing tension between LLM deployment convenience and the regulatory and ethical constraints of healthcare-adjacent AI, particularly for organizations unwilling to outsource sensitive interactions to third-party infrastructure.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: LoMo: Local Modality Substitution for Deeper Vision-Language Fusion

LoMo: Local Modality Substitution for Deeper Vision-Language Fusion

Researchers identify a fundamental asymmetry in how vision-language models process text versus images, termed carrier sensitivity. When visual questions replace textual ones, performance collapses despite theoretical equivalence. The root cause traces to training data bias where text and images occupy structurally different roles across standard datasets like VQA and image captioning. This finding exposes a critical gap in multimodal fusion that current architectures fail to bridge, suggesting VLMs may require fundamentally different training approaches to achieve true modality invariance rather than surface-level alignment.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: How LoRA Remembers? A Parametric Memory Law for LLM Finetuning

How LoRA Remembers? A Parametric Memory Law for LLM Finetuning

Researchers have formalized how LoRA, the dominant fine-tuning method for LLMs, actually stores and updates knowledge by introducing a Parametric Memory Law that quantifies capacity limits as a power law relationship between loss reduction, model parameters, and sequence length. This work moves beyond anecdotal downstream benchmarks to establish deterministic phase transitions at the token level, providing practitioners and researchers with a theoretical foundation for predicting when LoRA adaptation will saturate and how to allocate parameters efficiently during continuous learning cycles.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: VideoFDB: Evaluating Full-Duplex Vision-Speech Capabilities in Conversational Agents

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VideoFDB: Evaluating Full-Duplex Vision-Speech Capabilities in Conversational Agents

Conversational AI has largely ignored the visual and gestural layer of human interaction, treating dialogue as speech-only. VideoFDB addresses this gap by introducing the first benchmark for evaluating agents that must both perceive and generate nonverbal cues alongside audio in real-time two-way exchanges. The dataset spans 237 video call clips annotated for 11 distinct conversational dynamics, paired with a rubric-based evaluation framework that separates perception from generation tasks. This work signals a maturation in multimodal agent design, pushing the field beyond speech-centric full-duplex systems toward embodied conversational intelligence that mirrors human social presence.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Wasserstein Contraction of Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference

Researchers have established convergence guarantees for coordinate ascent variational inference under Wasserstein distance, a foundational result for probabilistic inference at scale. The work bridges theoretical machine learning and practical Bayesian methods by proving contraction rates hold across smooth manifolds and non-smooth spaces, with direct applications to mixture models and modern classification techniques like Pólya-Gamma augmentation. This advances the theoretical footing of variational methods widely used in production ML systems, particularly where uncertainty quantification matters.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: Same Evidence, Different Answers: Canonical-Context On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Turn Language Models

Same Evidence, Different Answers: Canonical-Context On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Turn Language Models

Researchers identify a fundamental failure mode in multi-turn LLM reasoning: models drift from correct answers when information arrives incrementally rather than all at once, even when the total evidence is identical. The root cause is self-anchored drift, where partial-context responses embed unsupported assumptions that contaminate downstream reasoning. Canonical-Context On-Policy Distillation (CCOPD) addresses this by training a student model against a teacher conditioned on complete context, forcing consistency across conversation trajectories. This work matters because production LLMs routinely operate in multi-turn settings where information unfolds gradually, and the gap between single-prompt and incremental performance directly impacts reliability in real-world deployments.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: OOD-GraphLLM: Graph Large Language Model for Out-of-Distribution Generalized Drug Synergy Prediction

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OOD-GraphLLM: Graph Large Language Model for Out-of-Distribution Generalized Drug Synergy Prediction

Researchers introduce OOD-GraphLLM, a graph-based large language model designed to predict drug synergies when molecular structures fall outside training distributions. The work addresses a critical gap in computational drug discovery: existing models assume stable molecular scaffolds, but novel compounds constantly introduce topological variations that break traditional predictions. By combining graph neural networks with LLM reasoning, this approach aims to identify which molecular features matter for specific cellular targets versus which are spurious. The advance matters because it moves drug discovery AI from controlled lab conditions toward real-world robustness, where unseen chemical space is the norm rather than exception.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: Knowing What to Solve Before How: Preplan Empowered LLM Mathematical Reasoning

Knowing What to Solve Before How: Preplan Empowered LLM Mathematical Reasoning

Researchers propose PPC, a three-stage reasoning framework that adds explicit problem diagnosis before planning and execution in LLM reasoning tasks. Current methods conflate problem understanding with solution strategy, leaving implicit what type of problem exists, which tools apply, and what failure modes to expect. By surfacing this recognition layer first, PPC aims to improve mathematical reasoning accuracy and robustness. The work addresses a structural gap in the question-to-answer pipeline that affects how LLMs decompose complex tasks, potentially influencing how future reasoning frameworks are designed.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: CommunityFact: A Dynamic, Multilingual, Multi-domain Benchmark for Misinformation Detection in the Wild

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CommunityFact: A Dynamic, Multilingual, Multi-domain Benchmark for Misinformation Detection in the Wild

Researchers released CommunityFact, a dynamic multilingual benchmark designed to stress-test LLM fact-checking in real-world conditions rather than static lab settings. The dataset spans 15,992 claims across five languages and two domains, revealing a critical gap: web-enabled models systematically choose different sources than human annotators, and closed-input verification remains fundamentally unreliable. This work matters because it exposes a systematic misalignment in how production LLMs prioritize sources during retrieval-augmented verification, suggesting current web-search integration strategies may propagate subtle biases at scale.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: GRASP: Plan-Guided Graph Retrieval with Adaptive Fusion and Reranking on Semi-Structured Knowledge Bases

GRASP: Plan-Guided Graph Retrieval with Adaptive Fusion and Reranking on Semi-Structured Knowledge Bases

Researchers have developed GRASP, a three-stage retrieval framework that substantially improves how AI systems search semi-structured knowledge bases combining text and entity graphs. The approach integrates plan-guided graph traversal with dense retrieval and learned reranking, achieving a 19-point lift in Hit@1 accuracy across benchmark datasets. This work matters because semi-structured KBs power high-stakes applications from medical search to e-commerce discovery, and GRASP's modular design sidesteps the brittleness of end-to-end graph generators while outperforming existing hybrid methods. The result signals growing sophistication in retrieval-augmented systems that must reason over both unstructured text and structured relational data.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: Do Language Models Track Entities Across State Changes?

Do Language Models Track Entities Across State Changes?

Researchers probed how transformer language models handle entity tracking across multiple state-changing operations, uncovering a counterintuitive mechanism: LMs don't incrementally update world states as they process tokens or propagate updates across layers. Instead, they defer computation until the query becomes unambiguous, then aggregate all relevant information in parallel at the final token. This finding challenges assumptions about how LLMs reason over dynamic scenarios and has implications for understanding both model limitations and potential architectural improvements for tasks requiring faithful state management.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: How's it going? Reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional welfare axis

How's it going? Reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional welfare axis

Researchers demonstrate that reinforcement learning activates a latent 'welfare' representation within language models, distinct from task-specific learning. By training models in a semantically neutral maze and extracting concept vectors, they show punishment-aligned vectors systematically promote failure tokens, correlate with negative emotions, and degrade goal-tracking. Steering experiments induce refusal and uncertainty. This finding reshapes interpretability work by suggesting RL doesn't build new value systems but recruits pre-existing evaluative scaffolding, with implications for alignment and model steering safety.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

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Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

Illinois enacted sweeping AI safety legislation that shifts regulatory authority away from federal control, marking a significant state-level intervention in AI governance. Anthropic and OpenAI's support signals industry acceptance of mandatory safety testing frameworks, suggesting the major labs view state-level compliance as preferable to fragmented federal uncertainty. This move establishes a template for other states and potentially constrains Trump administration efforts to roll back AI oversight, reshaping the competitive landscape for companies operating across jurisdictions.

Ars Technica - AI·May 28

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Illustration for: Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

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Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

Anthropic's Opus 4.8 introduces Dynamic Workflows, a coordination layer for managing multi-agent systems. This capability addresses a critical gap in production AI: orchestrating specialized subagents to handle complex, multi-step tasks without manual routing. The feature signals a shift toward composite AI architectures where smaller, focused models collaborate rather than relying on single monolithic systems. For teams building agentic applications, this moves the needle on practical deployment complexity and cost efficiency.

TechCrunch - AI·May 28

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Illustration for: Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up

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Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 prioritizes calibrated uncertainty over false confidence, addressing a persistent weakness in frontier models where overconfidence masks knowledge gaps. The release signals a strategic pivot toward reliability metrics as a competitive differentiator in an era where raw capability benchmarks alone no longer justify enterprise adoption. This reflects broader industry recognition that model trustworthiness, not just scale, determines real-world deployment viability.

The Verge - AI·May 28

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Illustration for: Anti Mode-Collapse in Mean-Field Transformer via Auxiliary Variables

Anti Mode-Collapse in Mean-Field Transformer via Auxiliary Variables

Researchers using mean-field theory have identified why transformer self-attention mechanisms avoid mode collapse during deep inference, pinpointing positional encoding as a critical stabilizing mechanism. The finding reconciles a gap between theoretical models and observed transformer behavior in practice. This work matters for understanding attention stability at scale and informs architectural choices for long-context reasoning, where attention degradation has been a known failure mode.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: ExDBSCAN: Explaining DBSCAN with Counterfactual Reasoning -- Additional Material

ExDBSCAN: Explaining DBSCAN with Counterfactual Reasoning -- Additional Material

ExDBSCAN addresses a critical gap in unsupervised learning: the inability to explain why clustering algorithms assign points to clusters or outlier groups. By layering counterfactual reasoning onto DBSCAN, a widely deployed density-based method, the work makes cluster decisions interpretable and auditable. This matters because opaque clustering underpins recommendation systems, anomaly detection, and data segmentation across production ML pipelines. As enterprises demand explainability across all ML stages, not just supervised models, interpretability methods for unsupervised techniques become table stakes for trustworthy deployments.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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TriSearch: Learning to Optimize Triangulations via Bistellar Flips

TriSearch applies reinforcement learning to a classical computational geometry problem: optimizing triangulations of polytopes through bistellar flips. The framework uses a novel circuit-supported action representation that avoids explicit enumeration of the full search space, enabling learned policies to generalize from small training instances to exponentially larger problems in 3D and 4D. This work signals growing interest in using RL to tackle combinatorial optimization tasks where traditional search becomes intractable, with potential applications in mesh generation, computational geometry, and constraint satisfaction problems that underpin graphics, simulation, and optimization pipelines.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: When Should Models Change Their Minds? Contextual Belief Management in Large Language Models

When Should Models Change Their Minds? Contextual Belief Management in Large Language Models

Researchers have identified a critical gap in how large language models manage evolving information over extended interactions. The new BeliefTrack benchmark reveals that standard LLMs fail systematically at three core tasks: knowing when to update their internal state, when to preserve it, and when to filter noise. While prompt engineering offers marginal improvements, reinforcement learning approaches show promise in closing this gap. This work matters because long-horizon reasoning, planning, and multi-turn dialogue all depend on robust belief tracking. The findings suggest current models lack fundamental mechanisms for maintaining coherent world models, a prerequisite for reliable autonomous agents.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Illustration for: MarginGate: Sparse Margin-Triggered Verification for Batch-Invariant LLM Inference

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MarginGate: Sparse Margin-Triggered Verification for Batch-Invariant LLM Inference

Batch-dependent token flips in BF16 LLM inference undermine reproducibility claims, yet occur sparsely across models. Researchers discovered that flips cluster around low logit margins and propose MarginGate, a selective verification approach that avoids blanket batch-invariant overhead by targeting only unstable decode steps. The technique cuts verification costs while maintaining consistency, addressing a practical pain point for production inference where determinism matters but full redundancy is expensive.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: GRUFF: LLM Pronoun Fidelity, Reasoning, and Biases in German

GRUFF: LLM Pronoun Fidelity, Reasoning, and Biases in German

Researchers have released GRUFF, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating how well language models handle pronoun resolution in German, a language with complex grammatical gender and agreement rules absent in English. This work exposes a critical gap in LLM evaluation: existing pronoun fidelity tests rely heavily on English's minimal gender marking, leaving model behavior on morphologically richer languages largely unmeasured. The dataset tests four gender agreement systems and pronoun sets, enabling researchers to disentangle whether reasoning failures or gender bias drives pronoun errors. For practitioners deploying multilingual systems, this reveals potential blind spots in model robustness across typologically diverse languages.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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Faithful Embeddings of Irregular and Asynchronous Data for Online Log-NCDEs

Researchers have solved a foundational problem in continuous-time neural models for irregular data by proving that direct embedding of observations into model input space eliminates the need for intermediate reconstruction steps. This theoretical result, applied to Log-NCDEs, removes a major source of model brittleness and design arbitrariness that has plagued time-series and event-stream applications. The work matters because irregular, asynchronous data is endemic in real-world deployments (sensor networks, medical records, financial ticks), and reducing sensitivity to embedding choices directly improves robustness and generalization in production systems.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: A Dual-Path Architecture for Scaling Compute and Capacity in LLMs

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A Dual-Path Architecture for Scaling Compute and Capacity in LLMs

Researchers propose a dual-path transformer block that decouples compute scaling from parameter efficiency, addressing a fundamental tradeoff in looped architectures. By routing tokens through both a deep recurrent sublayer and a wide feed-forward pathway with independent gating, the approach achieves higher model capacity at fixed FLOPs than existing parameter-efficient designs. This matters because it opens a new design space for training-efficient models without sacrificing representational power, potentially reshaping how teams approach scaling constraints under compute budgets.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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HPO: Hysteretic Policy Optimization for Stable and Efficient Training under Sparse-Reward Regime

Researchers identify a critical instability in GRPO-style reinforcement learning when training on sparse rewards: early training phases weight negative-advantage responses too heavily, and per-response length normalization skews gradient magnitudes toward longer outputs. Hysteretic Policy Optimization (HPO) addresses this by downweighting disadvantageous updates and switching to mean-length normalization, with an adaptive variant that tunes the hysteretic coefficient automatically from batch statistics. The fix is minimal but targets a real failure mode affecting reward model training at scale, particularly relevant as sparse-reward RL becomes standard for aligning language models on verifiable tasks.

arXiv cs.LG·May 28

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Illustration for: Token-Level Generalization in LoRA Adapter Backdoors: Attack Characterization and Behavioral Detection

Token-Level Generalization in LoRA Adapter Backdoors: Attack Characterization and Behavioral Detection

Researchers demonstrate that LoRA adapters, now the standard distribution format for fine-tuned LLMs, are vulnerable to training-data poisoning attacks that preserve clean accuracy while injecting reliable backdoors. The attack generalizes at the token-feature level rather than structural patterns, meaning a model poisoned on RFC citations will trigger on any RFC reference but not on structurally identical ISO or NIST citations. This asymmetry creates a detection blind spot for defenders, who cannot probe for backdoors using generic structural patterns. The work characterizes the vulnerability across model scales, families, and adapter ranks, establishing that LoRA's efficiency advantage comes with a new attack surface that current defenses cannot easily address.

arXiv cs.CL·May 28

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