Jeff Dean (Google Senior Fellow) – YC AI Lecture (Aug 2017)
Chapters
00:00:00 The Growing Use of Deep Learning and TensorFlow
Overview: Jeff Dean discusses Google Brain Team’s research in deep learning, the growing use of deep learning at Google, and the development of TensorFlow, an open-source platform for machine learning.
Research Areas: The Google Brain Team focuses on various research areas, including computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and unsupervised learning.
Shift in Machine Learning Approaches: In the past, neural networks were not the preferred solution due to insufficient training data and computational capabilities.
Advancements in Compute: The availability of significantly more compute power has made neural networks the best solution for many problems.
Growing Use of Deep Learning at Google: Google Brain Team initially explored the hypothesis that large amounts of compute could solve interesting problems using neural nets.
Building Tools for Machine Learning: Google Brain Team developed tools to enable people to apply machine learning and deep learning to various problems.
Reducing Experimental Turnaround Time: A key focus is on reducing experimental turnaround time for machine learning experiments.
TensorFlow: TensorFlow is an open-source platform for expressing all kinds of machine learning ideas, including deep learning, other machine learning methods, perception, and language understanding.
TensorFlow Goals: TensorFlow aims to provide a common platform for research and production, enabling flexible experimentation and scalable deployment.
GitHub Stars Comparison: TensorFlow has gained popularity on GitHub compared to other open-source machine learning packages.
Focus on Speed: Google Brain Team is working on improving the speed of TensorFlow by providing high-performance code and optimizing the platform.
00:09:39 TensorFlow: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Platform with Wide-Ranging Applications
TensorFlow’s Performance and Compatibility: TensorFlow’s scaling is quite good, with nearly linear speed up for various image models on up to eight GPU cards. It supports a range of platforms, including iOS, Android, Raspberry Pis, CPUs, and custom machine learning accelerators. TensorFlow aims to run on various devices and works with different language environments.
TensorFlow’s Popularity and Usage: It has a broad usage base, with major companies and organizations using it for machine learning tasks. TensorFlow ranks among the top repositories on GitHub, indicating its popularity. There is a growing interest in using TensorFlow in machine learning classes for teaching and illustrating concepts.
External Contributions and Collaborations: TensorFlow benefits from a large community of external contributors who contribute to its features, bug fixes, and improvements. These contributions have helped enhance the system in various ways.
Product Applications of Deep Learning at Google: Google Photos utilizes computer vision to understand the content of photos, enabling features such as image search and organization.
00:13:38 Transfer Learning: From Street View to Robotic Grasping
New General Model Trends: Give it an image, predict interesting pixels. Train the same basic model structure on different data sets to get different product features.
Applications of the New Model Trend: Street View: Identifying text in Street View images by heat mapping which pixels contain text. Solar Energy Potential: Identifying rooftops and estimating their solar energy potential. Medical Domain: Identifying symptoms of degenerative diseases like diabetic retinopathy in retinal images. Robotics: Using simulated robotic environments and real robots to train robots to grasp objects and perform actions. Scientific Domains: Using deep learning with simulators of complex phenomena to gain insights and iterate in computational science methodologies.
Success in the Medical Domain: A deep learning model achieved performance on par with the median of eight U.S. board-certified ophthalmologists in diagnosing diabetic retinopathy. Clinical trials are being conducted in India, where there is a shortage of ophthalmologists.
Benefits of Multiple Robots for Training: A data set of 800,000 grasp attempts, pooled from multiple robots, led to a better grasping mechanism and model compared to a data set of 30,000 grasp attempts.
Imitation Learning from Videos: Deep learning is used to transfer actions from videos of human demonstrations to real robots.
Deep Learning in Scientific Domains: Deep learning can be used with simulators of complex phenomena to gain insights and iterate in computational science methodologies.
Using Simulators as Training Data for Neural Nets: Quantum chemists use simulators to calculate molecular properties, which can be time-consuming. These simulations can be used as training data for neural nets, which can approximate the simulator’s task. This approach can achieve indistinguishable accuracy from the real simulator, but is 300,000 times faster.
Pixel-to-Pixel Learning for Depth Prediction: Neural nets can be trained to predict depth from input images, using training data with true depth information. This has applications in photography, such as creating depth effects in portraits.
Virtual Staining of Microscope Images: Neural nets can be trained to virtually stain microscope images, without actually staining the sample. This allows for longitudinal studies of cell processes and staining for things that don’t have chemical stains. Virtual staining also enables highlighting specific cellular components, such as axons and dendrites, in different colors.
00:24:54 Neural Machine Translation: Transforming Language Understanding
Introduction of Sequence-to-Sequence Learning: Sequence-to-sequence learning involves predicting an output sequence conditioned on an input sequence. It finds applications in various tasks, including translation and natural language generation.
Smart Reply as an Application of Sequence-to-Sequence Learning: Smart Reply in Gmail utilizes sequence-to-sequence models to generate short, plausible replies to incoming emails. It was launched as a real product in November 2015 and quickly gained popularity.
Scaling Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Neural Machine Translation: Google Translate initially used a phrase-based machine translation system with limited machine learning. Transitioning to a sequence-to-sequence model required scaling up the model and training data. The new model achieved significant quality improvements over the phrase-based system.
Model Structure and Training: The sequence-to-sequence model employed a deep LSTM stack with attention modules. Multiple replicas of the model were used for data parallelism during training. Shared parameters enabled efficient training across replicas.
Quality Improvements and Human Evaluation: The neural machine translation model outperformed the phrase-based system in terms of translation quality as judged by humans. The model approached human-level translation quality for certain language pairs.
Real-World Impact and User Experience: The improved translation quality led to a noticeable improvement in the usability of Google Translate in Japan. An experiment demonstrated the significant transformation in translation quality from unusable to good.
Conclusion: Sequence-to-sequence learning has proven to be a powerful approach for various natural language processing tasks. The application of sequence-to-sequence models in Google Translate resulted in substantial quality improvements and enhanced user experience.
Current Machine Learning Problem-Solving Approach: Traditional approach involves a human machine learning expert manually selecting models, learning rates, and transfer learning techniques. This process requires substantial expertise and is limited to a small number of organizations with access to machine learning experts.
Learn-to-Learn: Goal: Automate the solution of machine learning problems, eliminating the need for human experts. Two main research areas: architecture search and optimizer rule learning.
Architecture Search: Aim: Design neural architectures automatically using a model-generating model. Process: Generate multiple model architectures. Train each architecture for a short duration. Use the loss of generated models as a reinforcement learning signal for the model-generating model. Results: Achieved state-of-the-art results on CIFAR 10 and language modeling tasks without human intervention. The generated architectures transferred well to different sequential tasks.
Optimizer Rule Learning: Aim: Discover optimal optimizer update rules automatically. Process: Provide the model and optimizer with symbolic expressions representing basic optimizer primitives. Allow the model to explore different update rule combinations. Results: Discovered novel update rules that outperformed human-designed rules. Improved training perplexity and blue score on a different problem using a transferred optimizer.
Benefits of Learn-to-Learn: Increased accessibility: Opens up machine learning to organizations without machine learning expertise. Efficiency: Automates the experimentation process, enabling the exploration of a wider range of solutions. Novel solutions: Discovers solutions that may not be apparent to human experts, leading to potential breakthroughs.
Conclusion: Learn-to-learn has the potential to revolutionize machine learning by automating problem-solving and opening up the field to a wider range of applications. Continued research in this area is expected to yield even more powerful and versatile machine learning solutions.
00:39:28 Custom Machine Learning Hardware for Deep Learning
Deep Learning Hardware and Software: Deep learning is tolerant of reduced precision arithmetic and is made up of a handful of specific operations. Custom machine learning hardware targeted at linear algebra can unlock huge amounts of compute. Google has developed custom machine learning accelerators for inference and training. A new system called TPU is designed for both training and inference. TPU is a board with 64 chips, each with four chips, totaling 256 chips and 11.5 petaflops of compute. Multiple TPUs will be deployed in Google data centers to tackle larger problems.
TPU Programming: TPUs are programmable via TensorFlow. A new interface called estimators in TensorFlow 1.2 allows models to run on CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs with minor modifications.
Cloud TPU: Google Cloud will offer Cloud TPU, a virtual machine with a 180-teraflop TPU version 2 device. Cloud TPU will run TensorFlow programs super fast.
TPU Research Program: Google is making a thousand TPUs available for free to researchers worldwide. Researchers can sign up for the program if they are doing interesting work, committed to publishing results openly, and providing feedback on TPU devices.
Higher-Level APIs: Google Cloud offers higher-level APIs for managed services and pre-trained models. Examples include the Vision API for analyzing photographs and the Translation API for high-quality translations.
Machine Learning for Machine Learning: Google is experimenting with machine learning to optimize machine learning models. An abstract TensorFlow graph is used with multiple computational devices, such as GPU cards, to improve performance.
00:43:48 Efficient Model Development with Machine Learning
Deep Neural Networks Revolutionizing Machine Learning: Deep neural networks have made significant advancements, leading to noticeable changes in the field of machine learning. These advancements should be acknowledged and further explored.
Automating Model Design: Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can be used to optimize the placement of TensorFlow operations on devices, resulting in faster model execution. This automation eliminates the need for manual optimization, which can be tedious and time-consuming.
Exploring Opportunities with Increased Compute: Increased computational power presents an opportunity to accelerate the use of machine learning and unlock new societal benefits. The ability to process larger datasets and more complex models can lead to improved accuracy and performance.
Example Queries of the Future: Complex queries involving image captioning, document summarization, and robotic manipulation can become a reality with advanced machine learning capabilities. The productivity gains and societal benefits of such advancements are substantial.
Robotics and Machine Learning: Machine learning for control can empower robots to operate in messy environments and interact with humans safely. This intersection of robotics and machine learning promises exciting possibilities for future applications.
Interpretability of Learned Models: The interpretability of learned models varies depending on the problem and the desired outcome. While some models may provide clear insights, others may exhibit complex behaviors that require further investigation.
Combining Human and Machine Expertise: The combination of human knowledge and machine learning capabilities can drive further advancements in the field. Humans can provide insights and guidance to direct the exploration of new architectures and algorithms.
Data Efficiency and Transfer Learning: Transfer learning from large-scale datasets like ImageNet can improve the data efficiency of models for new tasks. Building a single giant model capable of performing multiple tasks can alleviate the need for separate models for each task, enhancing data efficiency.
Reducing Iteration Time for Experiments: Reducing the cycle iteration time for experiments from days or weeks to hours can significantly improve the workflow of machine learning engineers. This enables faster experimentation, validation, and iteration, leading to more efficient and effective model development.
Factors Affecting Translation Quality: The gap in translation quality between languages is often attributed to the amount of available training data for each language. Languages with larger datasets typically exhibit better translation quality due to the model’s ability to learn more comprehensive representations and patterns.
00:54:20 Machine Learning Model Optimization Cycle
Language Translation: Translation accuracy improves with larger training models and more comprehensive data coverage. Even with limited intelligence and flexibility, systems trained on more data can surpass human translators.
Architecture Search: Current bespoke model generation for each problem can be improved by training a single model that generates architectures for multiple problems. This approach leverages common patterns across problems to accelerate the identification of good starting architectures.
Development Cycle: Retraining frequency varies based on the domain. Stable domains like vision require less frequent retraining compared to dynamic domains like ad relevance prediction.
00:57:21 Understanding and Interpreting Machine Learning Models
Emerging Trends in Data Distribution: Some data distributions are stable, while others change rapidly, impacting production processes. Speech and vision tasks have relatively stable distributions, simplifying model development. Changing distributions necessitate frequent retraining and integration of new data.
Empirical Approach to Machine Learning Research: Much of machine learning research relies on empirical methods. Ideas are tested through implementation and experimentation. Hyperparameter tuning and exploration are crucial for achieving desired results. Intuition and prior knowledge play a role in guiding research directions.
Importance of Model Interpretability: Interpretability is critical in certain domains, such as healthcare. Explaining predictions helps build trust and understanding between humans and machines. Black-box predictions can be less useful in domains requiring nuanced explanations.
Identifying Potential Growth Areas in Machine Learning: Jeff Dean’s personal experience and observations led him to focus on machine learning six years ago. Keeping up with advancements in different areas of computer science is essential. Consulting with experts and reading research abstracts can provide valuable insights. Scale and compute power can enable solutions to previously unsolvable problems.
Challenges in Developing Real Reasoning Systems: Current neural networks often lack true reasoning capabilities. Training neural nets to perform specific tasks limits their ability to reason broadly. Algorithmic advancements and addressing the limitations of task-specific training are necessary for developing real reasoning systems.
What is Human Reasoning? Human reasoning involves building upon prior knowledge and experience to tackle new tasks and solve problems. Jeff Dean compares this process to a model that can perform various tasks by leveraging its accumulated knowledge from solving numerous other problems.
Challenges in Developing Multitask Models: Current models often employ dense activation for all tasks, resulting in inefficient utilization of parameters. To address this, Dean suggests developing models that activate only a small fraction of parameters for each task, similar to how the human brain operates.
Memory Networks and Architecture Search: Memory networks represent an emerging area of research, allowing models to update and mutate local state while performing tasks. Architecture search, in combination with machine learning, can automate the exploration of new model architectures and integrate both primitive and hand-designed elements.
Applications of Neural Networks: Healthcare: Neural networks can analyze vast amounts of data to predict diagnoses and improve patient care. Art Generation: Neural networks can generate artistic content, such as images and sentences, demonstrating their creative potential.
Conclusion: Jeff Dean’s presentation highlights the progress and potential of neural networks in various fields, emphasizing the importance of efficient model design, the integration of machine learning with architecture search, and the broad societal impact of these technologies.
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The Evolution of Machine Learning: A Deep Dive into TensorFlow and Transfer Learning: Updated Article
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This article delves into the cutting-edge advancements in machine learning, emphasizing the groundbreaking work of Jeff Dean and the Google Brain Team and the transformative impact of TensorFlow and transfer learning. We begin by examining the paradigm shift brought about by deep learning and the versatile platform offered by TensorFlow. We then explore the delicate balance between clarity and performance, the technique’s rising popularity, and its diverse applications. The discussion also encompasses TensorFlow’s language agnosticism, vast user base, and product applications. Central to this analysis is transfer learning, highlighting its use in various domains from image processing to medical imaging, and its significant benefits in reducing data requirements and accelerating model development. The article concludes with insights into the future of machine learning, including automated machine learning, the role of custom machine learning accelerators, and the transformative potential of neural nets in various fields.
1. The Google Brain Team’s Long-Term Vision in Machine Learning
Jeff Dean and the Google Brain Team have established a research ethos centered on making machines intelligent to enhance human lives. Their focus transcends specific applications, aiming to fundamentally advance deep learning. Their research areas encompass computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and unsupervised learning.
2. TensorFlow: A Paradigm in Machine Learning Platforms
TensorFlow emerges as a revolutionary open-source platform, pivotal for research in deep learning, perception problems, and language understanding. Its versatility allows for flexible deployment across various platforms, from mobile devices to custom accelerators. It aims to provide a common platform for research and production, enabling flexible experimentation and scalable deployment.
3. The Transformational Shift in Machine Learning
Deep learning has redefined problem-solving approaches, with neural networks becoming the go-to solution, thanks to increased computational power. However, it wasn’t always the preferred choice due to insufficient training data and computational capabilities. The availability of significantly more compute power has made neural networks the best solution for many problems.
4. A Focus on Efficiency: Reducing Experimental Turnaround
The Google Brain Team’s commitment to minimizing experimental time frames has been a game-changer, accelerating research from weeks to hours. A key focus is on reducing experimental turnaround time for machine learning experiments.
5. Balancing Act: Clarity and Performance in TensorFlow
Initially prioritizing clarity, TensorFlow tutorials have evolved to offer high-performance code, demonstrating the team’s adaptability. The Google Brain Team is also working on improving TensorFlow’s speed by providing high-performance code and optimizing the platform.
6. TensorFlow’s Rising Popularity on GitHub
The platform’s growing appeal is evident from its increasing GitHub stars, signifying its research flexibility and readiness for production. TensorFlow has gained popularity on GitHub compared to other open-source machine learning packages.
7. Performance and Platform Support of TensorFlow
TensorFlow stands out for its scalability across different platforms, including mobile and custom accelerators, and its language agnosticism, supporting Python and C++ primarily. It aims to run on various devices and works with different language environments. TensorFlow’s scaling is quite good, with nearly linear speed up for various image models on up to eight GPU cards. It supports a range of platforms, including iOS, Android, Raspberry Pis, CPUs, and custom machine learning accelerators.
8. TensorFlow in Action: From Major Corporations to Classrooms
Its widespread use across industry and academia positions TensorFlow as a cornerstone in machine learning education and application. It has a broad usage base, with major companies and organizations using it for machine learning tasks. TensorFlow ranks among the top repositories on GitHub, indicating its popularity. There is a growing interest in using TensorFlow in machine learning classes for teaching and illustrating concepts.
9. Product Applications and Transfer Learning
Google Photos is a testament to TensorFlow’s capabilities, particularly in computer vision. Transfer learning, a technique of repurposing models for different tasks, is central to TensorFlow’s flexibility and effectiveness. TensorFlow’s capabilities are evident in product applications at Google. Google Photos utilizes computer vision to understand the content of photos, enabling features such as image search and organization.
10. Transfer Learning Across Domains
Applications of transfer learning range from image processing and medical imaging to robotics and scientific simulations, showcasing its versatility. New general model trends include giving it an image to predict interesting pixels, and training the same basic model structure on different data sets to get different product features. Applications of this new model trend include identifying text in Street View images, estimating rooftop solar energy potential, identifying symptoms of degenerative diseases in retinal images, training robots to grasp objects and perform actions, and using deep learning with simulators of complex phenomena to gain insights and iterate in computational science methodologies.
Using Simulators as Training Data for Neural Nets:
Quantum chemists use simulators to calculate molecular properties, which can be time-consuming. These simulations can be used as training data for neural nets, which can approximate the simulator’s task. This approach can achieve indistinguishable accuracy from the real simulator, but is 300,000 times faster.
Pixel-to-Pixel Learning for Depth Prediction:
Neural nets can be trained to predict depth from input images, using training data with true depth information. This has applications in photography, such as creating depth effects in portraits.
Virtual Staining of Microscope Images:
Neural nets can be trained to virtually stain microscope images, without actually staining the sample. This allows for longitudinal studies of cell processes and staining for things that don’t have chemical stains. Virtual staining also enables highlighting specific cellular components, such as axons and dendrites, in different colors.
11. The Benefits of Transfer Learning
This approach significantly reduces data requirements and accelerates model development, enhancing model performance across various tasks. A deep learning model achieved performance on par with the median of eight U.S. board-certified ophthalmologists in diagnosing diabetic retinopathy. Clinical trials are being conducted in India, where there is a shortage of ophthalmologists.
Emerging Trends in Data Distribution:
– Some data distributions are stable, while others change rapidly, impacting production processes.
– Speech and vision tasks have relatively stable distributions, simplifying model development.
– Changing distributions necessitate frequent retraining and integration of new data.
Empirical Approach to Machine Learning Research:
– Much of machine learning research relies on empirical methods.
– Ideas are tested through implementation and experimentation.
– Hyperparameter tuning and exploration are crucial for achieving desired results.
– Intuition and prior knowledge play a role in guiding research directions.
Importance of Model Interpretability:
– Interpretability is critical in certain domains, such as healthcare.
– Explaining predictions helps build trust and understanding between humans and machines.
– Black-box predictions can be less useful in domains requiring nuanced explanations.
12. Cutting-Edge Applications in Machine Learning
Innovative applications like pixel-to-pixel learning, depth prediction, and virtual staining highlight the expansive potential of TensorFlow and deep learning. Multiple robots can be used for training, as a data set of 800,000 grasp attempts, pooled from multiple robots, led to a better grasping mechanism and model compared to a data set of 30,000 grasp attempts. Deep learning is used to transfer actions from videos of human demonstrations to real robots. Deep learning can be used with simulators of complex phenomena to gain insights and iterate in computational science methodologies.
13. The Impact of Sequence-to-Sequence Learning
This technique has led to breakthroughs in translation and smart reply systems, demonstrating TensorFlow’s utility in real-world applications.
Sequence-to-Sequence Learning and Its Applications: From Smart Reply to Neural Machine Translation
Sequence-to-sequence learning involves predicting an output sequence conditioned on an input sequence. It finds applications in various tasks, including translation and natural language generation.
Smart Reply as an Application of Sequence-to-Sequence Learning:
Smart Reply in Gmail utilizes sequence-to-sequence models to generate short, plausible replies to incoming emails. It was launched as a real product in November 2015 and quickly gained popularity.
Scaling Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Neural Machine Translation:
Google Translate initially used a phrase-based machine translation system with limited machine learning. Transitioning to a sequence-to-sequence model required scaling up the model and training data. The new model achieved significant quality improvements over the phrase-based system.
Model Structure and Training:
The sequence-to-sequence model employed a deep LSTM stack with attention modules. Multiple replicas of the model were used for data parallelism during training. Shared parameters enabled efficient training across replicas.
Quality Improvements and Human Evaluation:
The neural machine translation model outperformed the phrase-based system in terms of translation quality as judged by humans. The model approached human-level translation quality for certain language pairs.
Real-World Impact and User Experience:
The improved translation quality led to a noticeable improvement in the usability of Google Translate in Japan. An experiment demonstrated the significant transformation in translation quality from unusable to good.
Sequence-to-sequence learning has proven to be a powerful approach for various natural language processing tasks. The application of sequence-to-sequence models in Google Translate resulted in substantial quality improvements and enhanced user experience.
14. Neural Machine Translation: A Leap Forward
Google Translate’s significant improvements in language pairs exemplify the leap in translation quality achievable with TensorFlow’s neural machine translation system.
15. The Future of Machine Learning: Automation and Custom Accelerators
Learn-to-learn strategies and architecture search herald a new era of automated machine learning, further augmented by TensorFlow’s compatibility with custom machine learning accelerators like TPUs.
Current Machine Learning Problem-Solving Approach: Traditional approach involves a human machine learning expert manually selecting models, learning rates, and transfer learning techniques. This process requires substantial expertise and is limited to a small number of organizations with access to machine learning experts.
Learn-to-Learn: Goal: Automate the solution of machine learning problems, eliminating the need for human experts. Two main research areas: architecture search and optimizer rule learning.
Architecture Search: Aim: Design neural architectures automatically using a model-generating model. Process: Generate multiple model architectures. Train each architecture for a short duration. Use the loss of generated models as a reinforcement learning signal for the model-generating model. Results: Achieved state-of-the-art results on CIFAR 10 and language modeling tasks without human intervention. The generated architectures transferred well to different sequential tasks.
Optimizer Rule Learning: Aim: Discover optimal optimizer update rules automatically. Process: Provide the model and optimizer with symbolic expressions representing basic optimizer primitives. Allow the model to explore different update rule combinations. Results: Discovered novel update rules that outperformed human-designed rules. Improved training perplexity and blue score on a different problem using a transferred optimizer.
Benefits of Learn-to-Learn: Increased accessibility: Opens up machine learning to organizations without machine learning expertise. Efficiency: Automates the experimentation process, enabling the exploration of a wider range of solutions. Novel solutions: Discovers solutions that may not be apparent to human experts, leading to potential breakthroughs.
Learn-to-learn has the potential to revolutionize machine learning by automating problem-solving and opening up the field to a wider range of applications. Continued research in this area is expected to yield even more powerful and versatile machine learning solutions.
Identifying Potential Growth Areas in Machine Learning:
– Jeff Dean’s personal experience and observations led him to focus on machine learning six years ago.
– Keeping up with advancements in different areas of computer science is essential.
– Consulting with experts and reading research abstracts can provide valuable insights.
– Scale and compute power can enable solutions to previously unsolvable problems.
Challenges in Developing Real Reasoning Systems:
– Current neural networks often lack true reasoning capabilities.
– Training neural nets to perform specific tasks limits their ability to reason broadly.
– Algorithmic advancements and addressing the limitations of task-specific training are necessary for developing real reasoning systems.
16. Key Insights and Future Directions
The article concludes with predictions about the future of machine learning, including automated device placement, the impact of deep neural nets, and the potential for large-scale models with selective activation, pointing towards an exciting future where machine learning transcends current limitations.
This comprehensive overview underscores the pivotal role of TensorFlow and transfer learning in shaping the future of machine learning, highlighting their transformative impact across various domains and setting the stage for the next generation of AI advancements.
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