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PRIMEdit: Probability Redistribution for Instance-aware Multi-object Video Editing with Benchmark Dataset

T0 review · 5 major / 5 minor · reviewed 2026-08-11 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read PRIMEdit claims a training-free way to edit several objects in one video at once, keeping each edit inside its target mask.

desk verdict PRIMEdit is a solid zero-shot multi-instance video editing method with a useful benchmark, but the evaluation is inbred enough that 'significantly outperforms' is not yet established. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.12877 v2 pith:25TTT54D submitted 2024-12-17 cs.CV

classification cs.CV
keywords multi-instancevideoeditingzero-shotdiffusionmodelscross-attentionmodulationattentionleakageinstancemasksbenchmarkCLIP-basedevaluation
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper tries to establish that a zero-shot, training-free framework can edit multiple distinct objects in a single video simultaneously, with each edit staying inside its own mask and not bleeding into other objects. It argues that existing global or single-object editors fail exactly when several instances need different prompts at once, either because a global caption cannot specify who gets edited or because bounding-box conditions leak across overlapping regions. PRIMEdit's answer is to reshape cross-attention probabilities inside each mask and to sample each instance separately before fusing, which the paper reports as more faithful and leakage-free than recent methods on a new 200-video benchmark. A reader should care because this is the capability behind practical text-driven video fix-ups: change one person's outfit, another's prop, and the background's color in a single pass without retraining.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the cross-attention map between image features and text tokens in a diffusion U-Net. IPR treats each row of that map as probability mass and redistributes it among the start-of-sequence, text, and end tokens, with the mask deciding which side of the boundary receives the redistribution; a dynamic strength decays over sampling steps and avoids padding-token manipulation. DMS is the second mechanism: Series Noise Sampling edits instances sequentially against inverted background latents, latent fusion combines the per-instance results, re-inversion harmonizes them, and Parallel Noise Sampling keeps the captions separate in the remaining steps. The Cross-Instance Accuracy score is the evaluation machinery: a per-row winner-take-all over vision-language similarities between cropped instances and instance captions, averaged down the diagonal.

What would settle it

Run PRIMEdit with the paper's fixed hyperparameters on a held-out set of videos that were not used for any tuning, compute the Cross-Instance Accuracy and per-instance textual faithfulness, and compare against the strongest mask-based multi-instance baseline; if PRIMEdit does not lead on leakage prevention or faithfulness on that held-out set, the central claim fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper claims that multi-instance video editing can be decomposed into per-instance probability redistribution plus disentangled sampling. Instance-centric Probability Redistribution (IPR) works only in cross-attention layers: outside the mask, attention to text and end tokens is moved to the start-of-sequence token so no edit appears; inside the mask, probability is moved from the start token to text and end tokens so the described object actually appears there. Disentangled Multi-instance Sampling (DMS) then edits each instance independently with its own caption while the background is pinned to the inverted input, fuses the instance latents, re-inverts briefly, and finishes in a parallel mode that keeps captions separate. With those two mechanisms, the paper claims edits are faithful, temporally consistent, and free of attention leakage; it also contributes the MIVE dataset of 200 annotated videos and the Cross-Instance Accuracy (CIA) score, which asks whether each cropped instance matches its own caption better than any other caption.

Load-bearing premise

The method's reported edge over other editors presumes that the MIVE benchmark is a fair, representative test and that tuning the framework's hyperparameters on those same videos does not inflate its scores.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Users can give each object its own prompt and get edits confined to that object's mask, without writing one long global caption or retraining the model.
  • Overlapping or nearby objects no longer need bounding-box separation, since mask-based probability redistribution replaces box conditions.
  • The MIVE dataset gives the field a common testbed with many instances per object class, small-to-large masks, and instance-level captions, plus the CIA metric for leakage.
  • Because IPR only touches cross-attention and DMS avoids spatio-temporal attention modulation, the method runs faster and uses less memory than the mask-based baseline it is compared against.
  • The same framework handles a single instance and partial-instance edits, not only dense multi-object scenes.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the benchmark's hyperparameters were tuned on the same 200 videos used in the headline comparison, the size of the advantage over untuned baselines may shrink on arbitrary user videos; an out-of-benchmark test with fixed settings would settle that.
  • The winner-take-all binarization in CIA discards how decisively one caption wins; a soft variant that rewards large margins could be more sensitive to partial leakage.
  • The mask-only interface suggests a natural extension to video object tracking: given masks for one frame, propagate masks and edit consistently through the clip without user re-annotation.
  • Reflective surfaces are a known gap; combining the approach with reflection-aware masking could extend it to scenes with mirrors and polished floors.
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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

5 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes PRIMEdit, a zero-shot framework for multi-instance video editing that combines two modules: Instance-centric Probability Redistribution (IPR), which manipulates cross-attention probabilities to localize edits within instance masks, and Disentangled Multi-instance Sampling (DMS), which separates per-instance denoising to reduce attention leakage. The authors also introduce the MIVE dataset (200 videos with per-instance masks and captions) and the Cross-Instance Accuracy (CIA) score. Quantitative comparisons against seven baselines, extensive ablations, and a user study are reported, with the claim that PRIMEdit significantly outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods in faithfulness, accuracy, and leakage prevention.

Significance. The task of multi-instance video editing is timely and the proposed IPR and DMS designs are conceptually simple and potentially useful. If the empirical claims are robust, PRIMEdit would be a strong zero-shot method and the MIVE dataset and CIA score could provide a useful evaluation resource. The ablation study is thorough, covering the IPR and DMS components and several hyperparameters. However, the evaluation as presented does not yet establish the headline claim of significant superiority: the method is tuned on the same videos used in the headline comparison, results lack uncertainty quantification, the CIA metric needs further scrutiny, and the code and dataset are not released.

major comments (5)
  1. [Sec. 5 Implementation details; Supp. D.2–D.3, Tables 9–10] The headline comparison in Table 2 is performed on the same 200-video MIVE set that was used to select all key hyperparameters: the IPR step fraction (10%), λ and λ_r (both 0.5), the SNS step fraction (40%), and the re-inversion steps l (2) are chosen by ablations on the full MIVE set (Supp. D.2–D.3). Baselines are run with their default settings, so PRIMEdit is effectively optimized on the test set while the baselines are not. This asymmetry can inflate the observed margins (e.g., CIA 0.6705 vs 0.5868) and does not support the abstract's claim of "significantly outperforms" for general videos. I request a held-out validation split or a separate test set for hyperparameter selection, and a report of the robustness of the results across different splits.
  2. [Eq. (2), Sec. 3.2] The formula for λ_S is degenerate: min(mean(A_{I,j=S}), min(A_{I,j=S})) simplifies to min(A_{I,j=S}), and the warm-up value W is introduced without a precise definition of its role in the expression. As written, the equation is not a well-defined dynamic schedule, and the IPR method cannot be reproduced from the text. Please provide a corrected formulation, a clear definition of W, and pseudo-code for the IPR update.
  3. [Sec. 4.2, Eq. (10)] The CIA score assigns a binary 1 to the maximum similarity in each row of the n×n similarity matrix. If two instance target captions are semantically similar in CLIP space, a perfectly faithful edit may not receive the largest similarity for its own crop, producing a 0 and penalizing correct behavior. Thus, the metric conflates attention leakage with caption ambiguity, and it may differentially favor methods that produce overly discriminative or artifact-laden crops. Please provide an analysis of how CIA behaves under caption similarity, or consider a soft version based on normalized ranks or thresholds.
  4. [Table 2, Table 5, Sec. 5.1] No error bars, multiple random seeds, or statistical significance tests are reported. The improvements over the strongest baselines are small in several local metrics (e.g., LTF 0.2048 vs 0.2026 for VideoGrain), and the user-study temporal-consistency win rate of PRIMEdit (33.65%) is close to FLATTEN's (32.60%). Without uncertainty quantification, the claim of "significantly outperforms" is not statistically established. Please report the mean and standard deviation over at least three random seeds per method and add paired significance tests (e.g., bootstrap or Wilcoxon) for the quantitative and user-study comparisons.
  5. [Sec. 1, Data availability] The paper introduces a new dataset (MIVE) and a new metric (CIA), but neither the dataset nor the code or evaluation scripts are released. The project page (https://kaist-viclab.github.io/primedit-site/) shows demos but not the dataset or implementation. Without releasing these resources, the central empirical claims cannot be reproduced or independently verified, and the proposed benchmark cannot serve the community as intended. Please make the dataset, code, and metric implementation publicly available.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Throughout] There are several typos and grammatical issues, including "addtition" (Sec. 3.2), "ommitted" (Supp. B.1), and "we ourperform" (Supp. C.3). The manuscript would benefit from a careful proofread.
  2. [Sec. 5.1, User study] The user study's temporal-consistency result for PRIMEdit is close to that of FLATTEN; please add a statistical significance test or temper the wording related to temporal consistency.
  3. [Supp. Table 5] In the full quantitative results, PRIMEdit ranks fourth in Global Temporal Consistency and Global Textual Faithfulness; the main text should acknowledge this more explicitly rather than focusing only on local scores.
  4. [Supp. G, Limitations] The limitations section only discusses reflection consistency; it should also mention the evaluation limitations raised here (test-set tuning, lack of error bars) and how they are addressed.
  5. [Sec. B.1, Supp.] The caption-generation pipeline in Fig. 8 suggests a level of automation that contradicts the described "Manual Fix and Annotation" step; please clarify the human effort involved in producing the MIVE captions and masks.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged · score 4.0 of 10

Hyperparameters fitted on the same MIVE videos used for the headline comparison make the 'significantly outperforms' claim statistically forced on that benchmark; no definitional circularity.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Sec. 5 Implementation details; Supp. D.2 (IPR Ablations) and D.3 (DMS Ablations); headline results in Table 2]
    "We evaluate our PRIMEdit framework on our MIVE dataset (Sec. 4.1), editing 12-32 frames per video... We perform SNS for the first 40% of the denoising steps and perform PNS for the remaining steps. Our re-inversion steps l is set to l = 2. ... Based on these observations, we choose to apply IPR to 10% of the sampling steps. ... we use λ = 0.5 as our default. ... we select λr = 0.5 to achieve a balance between overall editing faithfulness and the minimization of artifacts. ... setting SNS steps to the first 40% of the sampling process achieves a balanced trade-off..."

    The five central hyperparameters (IPR step fraction, λ, λr, SNS fraction, and re-inversion steps) are selected using quantitative ablations over the same MIVE dataset that produces the headline comparison in Table 2, while the baselines are run 'using its default settings' (Sec. 5.1). PRIMEdit is therefore effectively fitted to the evaluation set, and the reported margins (e.g., CIA 0.6705 vs 0.5868) are not a prediction on held-out data but the result of optimizing scores on those same videos. The claim that PRIMEdit 'significantly outperforms' SOTA on MIVE is thus statistically forced by construction of the comparison, even though the method itself is not definitionally circular.

full rationale

The paper's core contribution is an inference-time algorithm, not a derivation, and there is no load-bearing self-citation: the method rests on standard diffusion components (Stable Diffusion, AnimateDiff, ControlNet, DDIM inversion) and external baselines are run and compared by the authors. No uniqueness theorem or author-invented prior result is invoked to force a choice. The CIA metric, though author-defined, is a transparent argmax-over-rows computation and is not equivalent to the method's cross-attention manipulation despite both using CLIP embeddings. The main circularity concern is empirical rather than definitional: the authors build the MIVE benchmark, define the primary leakage metric (CIA), and tune all key hyperparameters (IPR step fraction, λ, λr, SNS fraction, re-inversion steps) on the same 200 videos used for the headline quantitative table, while baselines are evaluated with their default settings. This test-set-tuning asymmetry can inflate the reported advantage and makes the headline 'significantly outperforms' claim not independently established for general videos. The user study provides a mitigating human-preference signal, but it evaluates the same tuned model on 30 videos drawn from the same dataset, so it does not break the inbreeding. Overall, the algorithmic derivation is self-contained, but the central empirical claim is partly forced by fitting to the evaluation set, warranting a score of 4.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 2 invented entities

The method is a heuristic engineering contribution, not a derivation. It relies on standard DDIM inversion, on the Stable Diffusion/AnimateDiff/ControlNet backbone, on accurate VIPSeg masks, and on the validity of CLIP for both guiding and measuring edits. The main ad hoc element is the IPR attention redistribution, justified by empirical observations. The MIVE dataset and CIA metric are introduced by the authors and have no external validation in the manuscript.

free parameters (6)
  • IPR redistribution strength lambda = 0.5
    Tuned empirically on MIVE as a trade-off between faithfulness and artifacts (Sec. 3.2, Supp. D.2).
  • IPR token split ratio lambda_r = 0.5
    Controls redistribution between text tokens and end-of-sequence token; chosen by ablations on MIVE (Sec. 3.2, Supp. D.2).
  • IPR application fraction = first 10% of DDIM steps
    Chosen by ablation on MIVE; more steps improve faithfulness but can hurt structure (Supp. D.2, Fig. 18).
  • SNS step fraction = first 40% of DDIM steps
    Chosen by ablation balancing background preservation, artifacts, and temporal consistency (Supp. D.3).
  • Re-inversion steps l = 2
    Chosen by ablation to balance temporal consistency and blurring artifacts (Supp. D.3).
  • Warm-up schedule W = decays from lambda=0.5 to 0 during first 10% of steps
    Part of the lambda_S schedule, meant to increase early-step editing fidelity (Sec. 3.2).
assumptions (5)
  • standard math DDIM inversion and denoising preserve the input video's structure.
    Used throughout the inversion-based editing pipeline (Sec. 3.1 and Supp. Eq. 11-12).
  • domain assumption Stable Diffusion v1.5 with AnimateDiff motion modules and ControlNet depth provides a suitable generative prior for video editing.
    Chosen as the backbone; no comparison against other backbone choices is provided (Sec. 5 Implementation details).
  • domain assumption Instance masks from VIPSeg are accurate and temporally consistent.
    Masks are the core conditioning signal; the dataset construction explicitly selects only videos where all instances remain visible (Sec. 4.1, Supp. B.1).
  • ad hoc to paper Manipulating cross-attention probabilities inside and outside masks improves localization without introducing artifacts.
    This is the core heuristic of IPR, justified by empirical observations rather than by derivation (Sec. 3.2, Supp. D.1).
  • domain assumption CLIP embeddings are a valid proxy for caption-instance alignment.
    Used both to guide IPR and to compute LTF and CIA metrics; the paper itself notes CLIP's limited compositional reasoning (Sec. 4.2, Supp. C.2).
invented entities (2)
  • MIVE Dataset
    purpose: Benchmark of 200 videos with instance masks and per-instance captions for multi-instance video editing.
    Introduced in this paper; no download link or external validation is provided in the manuscript.
  • Cross-Instance Accuracy (CIA) Score
    purpose: Metric to quantify editing leakage across instances in multi-instance video editing.
    Introduced and used only by the authors; no external analysis yet. It relies on CLIP embeddings, which also guide the method.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: PRIMEdit: Probability Redistribution for Instance-aware Multi-object Video Editing with Benchmark Dataset},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/25TTT54D}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2412.12877}
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abstract

Recent AI-based video editing has enabled users to edit videos through simple text prompts, significantly simplifying the editing process. However, recent zero-shot video editing techniques primarily focus on global or single-object edits, which can lead to unintended changes in other parts of the video. When multiple objects require localized edits, existing methods face challenges, such as unfaithful editing, editing leakage, and lack of suitable evaluation datasets and metrics. To overcome these limitations, we propose $\textbf{P}$robability $\textbf{R}$edistribution for $\textbf{I}$nstance-aware $\textbf{M}$ulti-object Video $\textbf{Edit}$ing ($\textbf{PRIMEdit}$). PRIMEdit is a zero-shot framework that introduces two key modules: (i) Instance-centric Probability Redistribution (IPR) to ensure precise localization and faithful editing and (ii) Disentangled Multi-instance Sampling (DMS) to prevent editing leakage. Additionally, we present our new MIVE Dataset for video editing featuring diverse video scenarios, and introduce the Cross-Instance Accuracy (CIA) Score to evaluate editing leakage in multi-instance video editing tasks. Our extensive qualitative, quantitative, and user study evaluations demonstrate that PRIMEdit significantly outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods in terms of editing faithfulness, accuracy, and leakage prevention, setting a new benchmark for multi-instance video editing.

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Figure 1. Given a video, instance masks, and target instance captions, our PRIMEdit framework enables faithful and disentangled edits [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Limitations of previous SOTA methods. (a) Con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The overall framework of our PRIMEdit, given [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: A comparative illustration of our IPR versus others (top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison for three videos (with increasing difficulty from left to right) in our MIVE dataset. (a) shows the color [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ablation study on DMS (Sec. 3.3). model tends to reconstruct the input frames when modula￾tion is omitted. The reconstruction thereby preserves the high LTC of the input but suffers from unfaithful editing (low LTF and IA) and leakage (low CIA). Introducing cross￾atten…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation study on IPR (Sec. 3.2). achieves the best scores in key multi-instance VE metrics (LTC, LTF, IA, and CIA) demonstrating its superior abil￾ity to maintain temporal consistency, fine-grained textual alignment, and instance-aware modifications. Note also that ou…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: MIVE Dataset caption generation pipeline for each video. Yellow box: The process starts by prompting LLaVA [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Sample frames and captions from our MIVE Dataset (Part 1). The colored texts are the instance target captions. For each video, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Sample frames and captions from our MIVE Dataset (Part 2). The colored texts are the instance target captions. For each video, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Visualization of the Cross-Instance Accuracy (CIA) Score computation. We calculate the Local Textual Faithfulness (LTF) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Qualitative comparison for three videos (with increasing difficulty from left to right) in our MIVE dataset. (a) shows the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Our user study interface and questionnaire form. Par [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_13.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Video-P2P [36] results on recursive multi-instance edit￾ing. The artifacts that accumulate when Video-P2P is used re￾peatedly for multi-instance editing is shown in red arrow. Our PRIMEdit prevents this error accumulation since we do not edit the frames recursively. 2…
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Attention weight visualization. Input Video-P2P [36] PRIMEdit (Ours) In an office, a astronaut interacts with an electronic equipment on a table, observed by a man and a woman, against a white wall with a pillar. One screen is closer to the demo, and another screen is…
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Figure 16. Figure 16: IPR analysis: Effect of altering the attention probability values of padding token [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: IPR analysis: Various scenarios of redistributing the attention probability values of tokens [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Ablation study on IPR: (a) percentage of sampling steps where we apply our IPR. Increasing the IPR step percentage generally [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Ablation study on IPR: (b) λ. Increasing λ steers the editing more towards the edit caption, but increasing it too much to λ = 0.7 may cause oversaturation, e.g., the alien’s face and clothes. The best trade-off is λ = 0.5. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Ablation study on IPR: (c) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Ablation study on DMS: (a) Ablation on the number of SNS steps. Increasing the number of SNS steps reduces artifacts in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_21.png]
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Ablation study on DMS: (b) Ablation on the number of re-inversion steps [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Qualitative results on four DAVIS Dataset videos. Our PRIMEdit maintains faithful and temporally consistent edits, particularly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_23.png]
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Limitation. Our method struggles in scenes with reflec [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_24.png]

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