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\name{Kalpesh Krishna}
\address{\textit{\href{mailto:kalpeshk2011@gmail.com}{kalpeshk2011@gmail.com}} \\ \href{https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalpesh-krishna-6b3827a6/}{LinkedIn} \\ \href{https://github.com/martiansideofthemoon}{Github} \\ \href{https://twitter.com/kalpeshk2011}{Twitter} \\ \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9g2BsMUAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1}{Google Scholar} \\ \href{https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Kalpesh-Krishna/26161085}{Semantic Scholar}}
\address{\textbf{WEBPAGE}: \url{https://martiansideofthemoon.github.io}}

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{\bf Google (Gemini team)} { \hfill August '23 - Present}\\ \textit{Research Scientist} {\hfill New York, NY}

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{\bf University of Massachusetts, Amherst} \hfill {Sept '18 - Sept '23} \\ MS/PhD in Computer Science \\ (advised by \textit{\href{https://people.cs.umass.edu/~miyyer/}{Prof. Mohit Iyyer}}) \\
Major GPA: 4.0/4.0\\\\
{\bf Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay} \hfill {July '14 - July '18} \\ 
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science\\
(advised by \textit{\href{https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pjyothi/}{Prof. Preethi Jyothi}})\\
Major GPA: 9.74/10 (\textit{$\mathbf{2^{nd}}$ among 66 students}), Minor GPA: 10/10
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{\bf Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)} { \hfill June '22 - August '22}\\ \textit{Research Intern under \href{https://kyleclo.github.io/}{Kyle Lo}, \href{http://armancohan.com/}{Arman Cohan}, \href{https://pdasigi.github.io/}{Pradeep Dasigi}} {\hfill Seattle, WA}

{\bf Google DeepMind} (formerly Google Research) { \hfill October '21 - May '22}\\ \textit{Student Researcher under \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z0dGdDUAAAAJ&hl=en}{John Wieting}} {\hfill Amherst, MA (remote)}

{\bf Google DeepMind} (formerly Google Research) { \hfill June '21 - September '21}\\ \textit{Research Intern under \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CIZwXAcAAAAJ&hl=en}{Partha Talukdar} and \href{https://sites.google.com/view/bidisha-samanta/}{Bidisha Samanta}} {\hfill Bangalore, India (remote)}

{\bf Google DeepMind} (formerly Google Brain) { \hfill May '20 - August '20}\\ \textit{Research Intern under \href{https://sites.google.com/site/royaurko/}{Aurko Roy}}{\hfill Mountain View, CA (remote)}

{\bf Google DeepMind} (formerly Google Research) { \hfill May '19 - September '19}\\ \textit{Research Intern under \href{https://ai.google/research/people/GauravSinghTomar/}{Gaurav Singh Tomar} and \href{www.ankurparikh.com}{Ankur Parikh}}{\hfill New York, NY}

{\bf Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago}{ \hfill May '17 - July '17}\\ \textit{Research Intern under \href{http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~klivescu/}{Karen Livescu}, \href{http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~llu/}{Liang Lu} and \href{http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~kgimpel/}{Kevin Gimpel}}{\hfill Chicago, IL}

{\bf Mozilla Foundation}{\hfill May '16 - August '16} \\ \textit{Google Summer of Code Intern under \href{https://github.com/armenzg}{Armen Zambrano}}{ \hfill Mumbai, India / London, UK}
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\begin{rSection}{Awards \& Scholarships}
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\item Google PhD Fellowship 2021-23 (\href{https://research.google/outreach/phd-fellowship/recipients/?category=2021}{list of recipients}) 
\item Distinguished Paper Award, ACM CCS 2023 (5 out of 800 submissions)
\item Outstanding Paper Award - EACL 2023 (12 out of 1600 submissions)
\item Sharad Maloo Memorial Gold Medal at IIT Bombay\\
\textit{(For outstanding academic and extra-curricular achievements)}
\item \emph{Outstanding / Highlight Reviewer} at ACL 2020, 2022; ICLR 2021, 2022  (Top 7-12\% reviewers)
\item PhD Candidacy with Distinction at UMass Amherst
\item Cargill Global Leaders Scholarship 2016-18 \\
\textit{(Awarded by the \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_International_Education}{IIE} and \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill}{Cargill} for academic, extra-curricular and leadership achievements)}
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\begin{rSection}{Invited Talks}
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\item Georgia Tech, April 2024 \\
\textit{(Towards robust long-form text generation evaluation)}

\item University of Texas at Dallas, November 2023 \\
\textit{(Towards robust long-form text generation evaluation)}
\item University of Pittsburgh, November 2023 \\
\textit{(Towards robust long-form text generation evaluation)} \\
\textit{(Paraphrasing evades detection of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effective defense)}
\item NLP with Friends, September 2023 \\
\textit{(Paraphrasing evades detection of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effective defense)}
\item IBM Research, July 2023 \\ \textit{(Towards robust long-form text generation evaluation)}
\item University of Toronto, July 2023 \\ \textit{(Paraphrasing evades detection of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effective defense)}
\item Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, May 2023 \\ Google Deepmind, May 2023 \\ NVIDIA Applied Deep Learning Research, April 2023 \\ Apple Machine Learning Research, March 2023 \\ \textit{(Towards robust long-form text generation systems)}
\item University of Washington, September 2022 \\
\textit{(RankGen: Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models)}
\item University of Southern California, July 2021 \\
University of Texas at Austin, June 2021 \\
\textit{(Progress in text generation \& perils of its evaluation)}
\item Google Research, May 2021\\
\textit{(Hurdles to progress in long-form question answering)}
\item IBM Research, April 2020\\
\textit{(On model extraction attacks on BERT-based APIs)}
\item AllenNLP Summit at AI2, August 2019 \\
\textit{(Lightning talks on using AllenNLP for \href{https://github.com/martiansideofthemoon/allennlp-probe-hw}{education})}
\item UMass Data Science Research Symposium, April 2019 \\
\textit{(On hierarchical question-answer generation)}
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\begin{rSection}{Academic Service}
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\item \textbf{Area Chair} for EMNLP 2024, ACL 2024, NAACL 2024, EACL 2024 and workshops

\item \textbf{Program Committee / Reviewer} for 100+ total papers in EMNLP '19-23; ACL '19-'23; ICLR '21-'25; NAACL '19-'22; NeurIPS '21-'24; ICML '23-'24, EACL '23; IJCV '19; NEJLT '23; COLM '24 and several workshops in NeurIPS, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP

\emph{Outstanding / Highlight Reviewer} at ACL 2020, 2022; ICLR 2021, 2022  (Top 7-12\% reviewers)

\item \textbf{Student Volunteer} at ACL '19 (awarded \href{http://www.acl2019.org/EN/student-scholarship-applications-volunteers.xhtml}{ACL 2019 Student Scholarship}), AKBC '19, ICLR '20
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\item \textbf{Interns}: \href{https://satyapriyakrishna.com}{Satyapriya Krishna} (Harvard University) at Google Gemini (Summer 2024)
\item \textbf{Mentored} five UMass undergraduates on their honors thesis (2019-2021) and four student teams for the industrial mentorship projects (COMPSCI 696) in Spring 2019-2022
\item \textbf{Co-organized} a weekly talk series ``Machine Learning and Friends Lunch'' at UMass (2019-22)
\item \textbf{Graduate Teaching Assistant} at UMass Amherst for \textit{Deep Learning for NLP} (Spring 2019) and \textit{Advanced Natural Language Processing} (Fall 2020)
\item \textbf{Institute Student Mentor} at IIT Bombay (2017-18)
\item \textbf{Manager, Web and Coding Club} at IIT Bombay (2016-17)\\
\textit{Awarded the Institute Organizational Color 2016-17 at IIT Bombay for achievements while leading the Web and Coding Club}
\item \textbf{Teaching Assistant} at IIT Bombay in \textit{Computer Programming} (2016) and \textit{Linear Algebra} (2017)
\item \textbf{Web Coordinator} for Mood Indigo 2016 at IIT Bombay
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\begin{rSection}{Publications and Preprints}
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Also see my \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9g2BsMUAAAAJ}{Google Scholar} profile. NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL are top-tier peer-reviewed conferences in ML/NLP with an acceptance rate of  20-30\%.

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\textbf{Selected Papers}:

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\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12941}{Fact, Fetch, and Reason: A Unified Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation} \\
Satyapriya Krishna, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}*, Anhad Mohananey*, Steven Schwarcz, Adam Stambler, Shyam Upadhyay, Manaal Faruqui\\
arXiv 2024

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10817}{Foundational Autoraters: Taming Large Language Models for Better Automatic Evaluation} \\
Tu Vu*, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}*, Salaheddin Alzubi, Chris Tar, Manaal Faruqui, Yun-Hsuan Sung \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2024}

\item \href{https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf}{Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context} \\
Gemini Team, Google (\emph{Kalpesh Krishna} listed as a Core Contributor) \\
arXiv 2024

\item \href{https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_1_report.pdf}{Gemini: A family of highly capable multimodal models} \\
Gemini Team, Google (\emph{Kalpesh Krishna} listed as a Core Contributor) \\
arXiv 2024

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14251}{FActScore: Fine-grained Atomic Evaluation of Factual Precision in Long Form Text Generation} \\
Sewon Min*, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}*, Xinxi Lyu, Mike Lewis, Wen-tau Yih, Pang Wei Koh, Mohit Iyyer, Luke Zettlemoyer, Hannaneh Hajishirzi \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2023}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13408}{Paraphrasing evades detectors of AI-generated text, but retrieval is an effective defense} \\
\textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Yixiao Song, Marzena Karpinska, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{NeurIPS 2023}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13298}{LongEval: Guidelines for Human Evaluation of Faithfulness in Long-form Summarization} \\
\textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Erin Bransom, B. Kuehl, Mohit Iyyer, Pradeep Dasigi, Arman Cohan, Kyle Lo \\
\textbf{EACL 2023} (\textcolor{red}{Outstanding Paper Award})

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09726}{RankGen: Improving Text Generation using Large Ranking Models} \\
\textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Yapei Chang, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2022}


\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06332}{Hurdles to Progress in Long-form Question Answering} \\
\textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Aurko Roy, Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{NAACL 2021}
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05700}{Reformulating Unsupervised Style Transfer as Paraphrase Generation} \\ \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer \\ \textbf{EMNLP 2020} 
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12366}{Thieves on Sesame Street! Model Extraction of BERT-based APIs} \\ \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Gaurav S. Tomar, Ankur P. Parikh, Nicolas Papernot, Mohit Iyyer \\ \textbf{ICLR 2020}

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\textbf{Other Papers}:
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\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14517}{PostMark: A Robust Blackbox Watermark for Large Language Models} \\
Yapei Chang, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}, Amir Houmansadr, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2024}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09517}{GEE! Grammar Error Explanation with Large Language Models} \\
Yixiao Song, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}, Rajesh Bhatt, Kevin Gimpel, Mohit Iyyer \\ \textbf{NAACL 2024 (Findings)}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04729}{On the Risks of Stealing the Decoding Algorithms of Language Models} \\
Ali Naseh, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}, Mohit Iyyer, Amir Houmansadr \\
\textbf{CCS 2023} (\textcolor{red}{Distinguished Paper Award})


\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07188}{ezCoref: Towards Unifying Annotation Guidelines for Coreference Resolution} \\
Ankita Gupta, Marzena Karpinska, Wenlong Zhao, \emph{Kalpesh Krishna}, Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Mohit Iyyer, Brendan O'Connor \\
\textbf{EACL 2023 (Findings)}


\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02721}{NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation} \\
Kaustubh D. Dhole and others \\
\textbf{NEJLT 2023}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11689}{SLING: Sino Linguistic Evaluation of Large Language Models} \\
Yixiao Song, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Rajesh Bhatt, Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2022}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14250}{Document-Level Literary Machine Translation with Parallel Paragraphs from World Literature} \\
Katherine Thai*, Marzena Karpinska*, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Bill Ray, Moira Inghilleri, John Wieting and Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2022}


\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07385}{Few-shot Controllable Style Transfer for Low-Resource Multilingual Settings} \\
\textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Xavier Garcia, Deepak Nathani, Bidisha Samanta, Partha Talukdar \\
\textbf{ACL 2022}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10053}{RELiC: Retrieving Evidence for Literary Claims} \\
Katherine Thai, Yapei Chang, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{ACL 2022}

\item \href{https://research.ibm.com/publications/user-and-technical-perspectives-of-controllable-code-generation}{User and Technical Perspectives of Controllable Code Generation} \\
Stephanie Houde, Vignesh Radhakrishna, Praneeth Reddy, Juie Darwade, Haoran Hu, Kalpesh Krishna, Mayank Agarwal, Kartik Talamadupula, Justin D. Weisz \\
\textbf{NeurIPS HCAI workshop 2022} (short paper)

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09115}{Do Long-Range Language Models Actually Use Long-Range Context?} \\
Simeng Sun, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Andrew Mattarella-Micke and Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{EMNLP 2021}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02537}{Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering} \\
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna} and Mohit Iyyer \\
\textbf{ECIR 2021}
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00751}{Long Document Summarization in a Low Resource Setting using Pretrained Language Models} \\ Ahsaas Bajaj, Pavitra Dangati, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Pradhiksha Kumar, Rheeya Uppaal, Bradford Windsor, Eliot Brenner, Dominic Dotterrer, Rajarshi Das, Andrew McCallum \\
\textbf{ACL Student Research Workshop 2021}
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03718}{An Analysis of Frame-skipping in Reinforcement Learning} \\ Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Siddharth Aravindan, Vishwajeet Bagdawat, Varun Bhatt, Harshith Goka, Archit Gupta, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Vihari Piratla \\
arXiv 2021

\item \href{https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.01832}{SunPy: A Python package for Solar Physics} \\ Stuart J. Mumford and \textit{others} \\ \textbf{JOSS 2020}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02622}{Generating Question-Answer Hierarchies} \\ \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Mohit Iyyer \\ \textbf{ACL 2019}

\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02780}{Syntactically Supervised Transformers for Faster Neural Machine Translation} \\ Nader Akoury, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Mohit Iyyer \\ \textbf{ACL 2019}
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07820}{Trick or TReAT: Thematic Reinforcement for Artistic Typography} \\ Purva Tendulkar, \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Devi Parikh \\ \textbf{ICCC 2019} (\textcolor{red}{Best Presentation Award})
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07733}{Revisiting the Importance of Encoding Logic Rules in Sentiment Classification} \\ \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Preethi Jyothi, Mohit Iyyer \\ \textbf{EMNLP 2018} (\textit{short paper})
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06234}{Hierarchical Multitask Learning for CTC-based Speech Recognition} \\ \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Shubham Toshniwal, Karen Livescu \\
arXiv 2018
\item \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10398}{A Study of All-Convolutional Encoders for Connectionist Temporal Classification}\\ \textit{Kalpesh Krishna}, Liang Lu, Kevin Gimpel,  Karen Livescu\\ \textbf{ICASSP 2018} ({ \textit{Awarded SPS Travel Grant}})
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\textbf{Other Projects}: \url{https://martiansideofthemoon.github.io/other_projects/}
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\item CICS Graduate Fellowship 2018, Victor Lesser Graduate Scholarship 2019 at UMass Amherst

\item Selected for \href{https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/2017-jsalt-undergraduate}{JSALT '17}, organized by JHU's \href{https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/}{Center for Language and Speech Processing}\footnotemark[2] \footnotetext[2]{Couldn't attend due to clashing college schedule}
\item Institute Academic Prize 2015-16 at IIT Bombay
\item Top 10 at the Astronomy Olympiad's Indian Selection Camp for IOAA '14, (\textit{20000 candidates})
\item All India Rank 93 in \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination}{JEE Advanced} '14 \textit{(out of 126,000 candidates)} \\ All India Rank 34 in \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination}{JEE Mains} '14 \textit{(out of 1,400,000 candidates)} \\
All India Top 100 in \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Board_of_Secondary_Education}{CBSE XII} '14 \textit{(out of 1,000,000 candidates)} \\
All India Rank 2 in \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education}{ICSE} '12 \textit{(out of 132,000 candidates)} \vspace{0.01in}

Awarded by Pune city institutions for being the city topper in each of these exams. Featured in the Pune city editions of several newspapers including The Times of India and The Indian Express.
% Awarded AP grade (Top 1% of class) inComputer Programming,Basic BiologyandData Analysis.
\item Passed the \href{https://www.iapt.org.in/exams/nse/nsep.html}{National Standard Exam in Physics} '14 and \href{https://www.iapt.org.in/exams/nse/nsec-b-a-js.html}{National Standard Exam in Chemistry} '14, the first rounds in the Indian selection procedure for the International Physics Olympiad and the International Chemistry Olympiad respectively
\item Selected for the \href{http://www.kvpy.iisc.ernet.in/main/index.htm}{Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana} (KVPY) Award '14 (1,000/20,000 applicants)
%\item Times of India NIE Student of the Year '11
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\item Board Member of the Hampshire Bird Club in Massachusetts (2022-24)
\item \textbf{Blogging} - Active \href{http://martiansideofthemoon.github.io/archive.html}{blogger} on MS/PhD applications, biking, bird photography and computer science. Led development of a \href{https://www.wncc-iitb.org/wiki/index.php/The_Web_and_Coding_Club}{beginner's programming wiki} with the Web and Coding Club, IITB
\item \textbf{StackOverflow} - Active \href{https://stackoverflow.com/users/5080995/martianwars}{contributor} in 2016-17, top 6\% overall
\item \textbf{Open Source} - Actively \href{http://martiansideofthemoon.github.io/open_source/}{contributed} to Mozilla in 2015-16 including \href{https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/New_Contributor/Quarter_of_Contribution}{QoC 2015}, \href{https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/projects/}{GSoC 2016}
\item \textbf{Karate} - Black Belt (1st Dan) trained in Kyokushin Kai for seven years, district level winner
\item \textbf{Abacus \& Mental Arithmetic} - \href{https://alohamindmath.com/}{Aloha} grandmaster, national and state level winner
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\textbf{Hobbies} --- \href{https://martiansideofthemoon.github.io/birding/}{birdwatching}, macro \& bird photography, hiking, biking, reading, \href{https://twitter.com/4cast4you/status/1639131581939077120}{star} \href{https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/northern-lights-captivate-stargazers-across-massachusetts/}{gazing}
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