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SAGA: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Avatar

T0 review · 5 major / 7 minor · reviewed 2026-08-12 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read This paper claims that a two-stage adhere-then-detach mesh alignment turns 3D Gaussian Splatting into animatable human avatars that generalize to novel views and poses and support direct mesh extraction.

desk verdict SAGA is a credible two-stage Gaussian-mesh avatar with supportive ablations, but the 37%/13% claim doesn't survive contact with its own table, and the 'first direct mesh extraction' is really depth-fusion; worth reviewing, not ready as-is. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.00845 v1 pith:ITKPO4WK submitted 2024-12-01 cs.CV cs.GR

classification cs.CVcs.GR
keywords 3DGaussianSplattingmonocularhumanreconstructionanimatableavatarmesh-guidedregularizationnovelviewsynthesisposemeshextractionbarycentriccoordinates
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

This paper claims that the way to keep 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a point-cloud-like rendering representation, from overfitting in monocular human capture is to let a coarse body mesh discipline the Gaussians, but only for a while. Its method, SAGA, first adheres the Gaussians to the mesh so they learn a clean surface, then detaches them in a second stage so they can still fit wrinkles, shadows, and fine details. A soft alignment loss keeps the detached Gaussians near their bound triangles, and a Walking-on-Mesh routine updates those triangles as the Gaussians drift. If the claim holds, monocular video can produce avatars with photorealistic rendering, geometry clean enough for direct mesh extraction, training in about 12 minutes, and rendering at 60+ FPS. The paper reports that this two-stage design outperforms both naive Gaussian avatars and rigidly mesh-bound avatars on novel view and pose synthesis.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the bound-triangle relationship between a Gaussian and a mesh face, expressed through barycentric coordinates. A Gaussian's center is a weighted sum of the three vertices of its bound triangle, and its flat normal is aligned with the triangle normal; jointly optimizing barycentric coordinates and vertex positions lets Gaussians flow on the mesh instead of being pinned in place. In the Detached Stage, the same binding is retained as a soft regularizer: a position loss (minimum distance to the triangle) and a normal loss (absolute cosine distance) keep geometry on-mesh, while a retraction step in Stage 1 and a Walking-on-Mesh step in Stage 2 correct Gaussians that slide out of their triangle. This combination is what lets the mesh transfer its smooth, well-defined geometry and natural skinning weights to the Gaussians without sacrificing the expressivity of 3DGS.

What would settle it

Run SAGA on a monocular sequence of a person in loose clothing, then compare the rendered depth and the volumetric depth-fusion mesh against a synchronized multi-view scan; if the template mesh is far from the true surface, the alignment losses should pull the Gaussians to the wrong depth and produce visible artifacts in exactly the loose regions.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the central discovery is a two-stage surface-aligned Gaussian representation for monocularly reconstructed, animatable humans. In the Adhered Stage, each Gaussian center is a barycentric combination of the vertices of a bound triangle of the SMPL body mesh; the Gaussian is flattened along one axis and its normal is locked to the triangle normal, while both barycentric coordinates and mesh vertices are optimized so the Gaussian can flow over the surface. In the Detached Stage, the center is freed and reparameterized directly, but the Gaussian keeps its triangle binding and is pulled back toward that triangle by a position-alignment loss (minimum distance to the triangle, not just a plane) and an orientation-alignment loss (cosine distance between the Gaussian normal and the triangle normal). A Walking-on-Mesh routine replaces the bound triangle with the nearest adjacent one when a Gaussian drifts outside, keeping the regularization honest. The paper argues this adhere-then-detach schedule enforces well-defined geometry and frame-consistent deformation, and for the first time permits high-quality mesh extraction directly from deformable Gaussians learned from monocular video.

Load-bearing premise

Everything rests on the template body mesh staying close to the real clothed surface once the first stage is done, which is untested for loose clothing and unusual body shapes.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Animating an avatar into a new pose should stop producing the broken zippers, armpit fractures, and needle-like joint artifacts shown for unregularized Gaussians, because the mesh binding supplies smoother deformation and more natural skinning weights.
  • A trained avatar should be usable as a mesh, not only as a renderer: fusing rendered depth maps should give a clean surface that can be retargeted, edited, or relit.
  • The cost profile should stay practical for interactive use: about 12 minutes of training on a single GPU and real-time rendering at 60+ FPS at 512x512 resolution.
  • Warm-starting with a brief strict-adhered stage should be enough to inherit the mesh's geometry discipline, avoiding the long training runs that fully rigid mesh-bound avatars require.
  • Compared with a rigid fixed-on-mesh approach, the paper reports both higher rendering quality and a roughly 150x training speedup, showing that the two-stage release of constraints is what makes mesh alignment affordable.

Reading between the lines

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

  • The same adhere-then-detach schedule should transfer to other articulated subjects, such as animals or deformable objects, whenever a coarse template mesh is available, because the mechanism is template regularization rather than human-specific skinning.
  • A direct stress test the paper leaves open is loose or flowing clothing; if the template mesh deviates far from the true surface, the alignment losses would pull Gaussians to the wrong location, so an adaptive alignment weight based on estimated mesh-to-surface error would be a natural extension.
  • The triangle-binding across frames could also serve as an explicit temporal smoothness prior: counting how often Walking-on-Mesh reassigns a Gaussian and penalizing frequent reassignment would regularize non-rigid motion beyond what the paper reports.
  • Multi-view or depth supervision at test time could relax the dependence on the template mesh and let the same representation capture geometry on bodies that the parametric body prior fits poorly.
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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 / 7 minor

Summary. The paper proposes SAGA, a two-stage surface-aligned Gaussian representation for animatable human avatars reconstructed from monocular video. In the first Adhered Stage, Gaussian centers are parameterized by barycentric coordinates on SMPL mesh triangles and jointly optimized with the mesh vertices, while the Gaussians are flattened and their normals fixed to the triangle normals, enforcing strict surface adherence while allowing the Gaussians to flow on the mesh. In the second Detached Stage, the Gaussians are freed but kept under a position-alignment loss (Eq. 12) and a normal-alignment loss (Eq. 13) relative to their bound triangles, and a Walking-on-Mesh strategy (Algorithm 1) re-binds Gaussians that drift outside their triangles. A non-rigid deformation module and a pose-conditioned colorization MLP handle motion and appearance change. Experiments on ZJU-MoCap, MonoCap, and PeopleSnapshot report state-of-the-art or competitive novel-view and novel-pose results with roughly 12-minute training and 60+ FPS rendering, and the paper claims the first direct high-quality mesh extraction from deformable Gaussians learned from monocular video.

Significance. If the results hold, the adhere-then-detach idea is a genuinely useful contribution to the monocular avatar literature: it offers a clean way to obtain the geometric regularization of mesh-bound Gaussians without the expressivity loss of rigid binding, and it is supported by a structured set of ablations. Concrete strengths include that the paper runs official code of all baselines under unified protocols, reports training and rendering efficiency concretely, provides per-component ablations (Tabs. 4-7), measures the overhead of the walking-on-mesh module (1.7 ms), and evaluates on three datasets. The evaluation is not circular: the mesh alignment is a regularizer rather than a fitted target, and the reported metrics are on held-out views and poses. However, the quantitative support is thinner than the text suggests in several places: the headline percentage improvements are not reproducible from the tables, the ablation of the central alignment loss is at noise level, and the robustness of the core assumption (that the SMPL mesh tracks the true clothed surface) is untested in the regime where it could fail. These issues are fixable within the manuscript's scope.

major comments (5)
  1. [6.3.1, Tab. 1] The sentence "our method can notably surpass them on challenging subject by 37% and 13% respectively" is not reproducible from Tab. 1. For every subject and metric in that table, the relative improvement of SAGA over InstantNVR is at most approximately 29% (LPIPS on subject 394: (40.00-28.48)/40.00) and over GauHuman at most approximately 12% (LPIPS on subject 387: (38.72-34.20)/38.72), and on PSNR GauHuman actually beats SAGA on three of the six subjects (377, 387, 394). The authors should either identify the exact computation behind the 37% and 13% figures or correct the claim, since as written the headline margin is not supported by the reported numbers.
  2. [6.5.2, Tab. 5] The central quantitative evidence for the Gaussian-Mesh Alignment Regularization, one of the paper's main contributions, is a mean PSNR gain of 0.03 dB (31.08 vs 31.11), an SSIM gain of 0.0002, and an LPIPS gain of 0.0000 over six subjects. These margins are at or below typical run-to-run variation, and the loss weights entering L_geo (lambda_pa and lambda_na in Sec. 4.2.2) are not reported anywhere in the manuscript. Please provide per-subject results, the exact weights, and ideally multiple seeds or a statistical test; without these, the ablation cannot support the statement in Sec. 6.5.2 that the alignment loss "effectively regularizes the detached Gaussians" on the strength of the quantitative evidence alone.
  3. [4.2.2, Eqs. (12)-(13)] A load-bearing assumption of the two-stage scheme is that the optimized SMPL mesh remains a faithful proxy for the clothed surface during the Detached Stage, and this assumption is untested in the regime where it can fail. All ZJU-MoCap and PeopleSnapshot subjects wear tight-fitting clothing, yet Eqs. (12)-(13) pull every detached Gaussian toward its bound triangle; if a garment deviates strongly from body shape (skirts, baggy trousers, dresses), these losses would bias Gaussians toward the template rather than the true surface, and Walking-on-Mesh only re-binds within the same template's adjacent triangles. The paper should quantify the mesh-surface discrepancy (for example, silhouette error or distance of the learned canonical mesh to the reconstructed depth) and/or add a subject with loose clothing. I do not see a circularity problem here, since the mesh acts as a regularizer and the metrics are on held-out views and poses; the issue is empirical coverage of the proxy assumption, not the logic of the method. The small effect of the alignment loss in Tab. 5 in the tested regime makes the risk of a negative effect in the untested regime plausible rather than merely hypothetical.
  4. [6.5.1, Tab. 4] The stage-ablation protocols are underspecified, which limits what Tab. 4 can establish. For the "w/o adhered stage" row it is not stated how and where the Gaussians are initialized, nor when the Detached Stage begins (iteration 0 or iteration 3k). For the "w/o detached stage" row it is not stated whether training continues to 15k iterations under the adhered parameterization or stops at 3k, and since the non-rigid deformation module is active only in the Detached Stage, the ablation varies stage duration jointly with module activation. Please specify the exact training schedule and initialization used for each row.
  5. [6.6] The claim of "direct high-quality mesh extraction" and the "first successful attempt" (abstract, Sec. 1, Sec. 7) is supported only by qualitative depth visualizations and TSDF-fusion examples (Figs. 16-17), with no quantitative geometry metric. Moreover, because the representation is built on a deformed SMPL template, the extracted mesh inherits the SMPL prior by construction, so the improvement over 3DGS-Avatar in Fig. 17 may largely reflect that prior rather than the proposed alignment mechanism itself. Please add a quantitative geometry comparison (for example, multi-view depth consistency, silhouette IoU, or distance to a reference obtained from the 22 held-out ZJU-MoCap views) or temper the claim accordingly.
minor comments (7)
  1. [Throughout] Typographical and naming issues: "neglectable" (Sec. 6.5.3) should be "negligible"; "OutOfTrianlge" in Algorithm 1; "representaion" in the Tab. 4 caption; "SpattingAvatar" vs "SplattingAvatar" should be unified (Sec. 6.2 and Fig. 8 caption); and "Peoplesnapshot" vs "PeopleSnapshot" capitalization is inconsistent.
  2. [Eqs. (12), (17)] Eq. (12) indexes the sum from i=0 to N while Gaussians are indexed i=1..N elsewhere. In Eq. (17), after clamping the barycentric coordinates to [0,1], the coordinates are not renormalized to sum to 1; the normalization step should be stated explicitly.
  3. [Sec. 4.4, Eq. (24)] The per-frame latent vector psi in Eq. (24) is described as a "per-frame latent vector" but it is not explained how it is obtained (a learnable embedding per training frame?) or how it behaves for novel poses; please clarify.
  4. [Sec. 6.3.2, Tab. 3] The 42% LPIPS gain over SplattingAvatar on female-3-casual is arithmetically consistent with Tab. 3, but the explanation that PSNR/SSIM "favor the smoothed blurry results" is asserted without supporting evidence; either provide a quantitative demonstration (for example, a patch-level analysis) or soften the claim.
  5. [Sec. 6.4] Novel pose synthesis is one of the two headline tasks but is evaluated only qualitatively (Figs. 9, 10, 12); adding a quantitative metric on the AIST++/AMASS animations would make the generalization claim testable.
  6. [Sec. 5.2] Key hyperparameters (epsilon in Eq. (7), the loss weights lambda_mask, lambda_LPIPS, lambda_lap, lambda_normal, and the weights of the alignment losses, as well as the Gaussian count N) are deferred to the supplementary, which is not included in this submission; please include them in the main text or make the supplement available.
  7. [Tab. 2] In Tab. 2, 3DGSAvatar achieves better LPIPS than SAGA on Olek (0.0115 vs 0.0116) and Vlad (0.0158 vs 0.0165), so the caption claim "outperforms the comparison methods on most subjects" should acknowledge this exception or be rephrased per metric.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the two-stage mesh alignment is a regularizer, novel view and pose results are evaluated on held-out data, and the geometry extraction claim explicitly relies on the stated SMPL prior rather than on a fitted prediction.

full rationale

The paper's load-bearing claim is that aligning Gaussians with an SMPL mesh in an adhere-then-detach scheme improves novel view and pose synthesis. This is an empirical method proposal, not a derivation that reduces to its inputs. The alignment losses (Eqs. 12 and 13) are regularizers added to the appearance loss; Gaussian centers and rotations remain free variables optimized against image reconstruction on training frames, while the quantitative comparisons (Tables 1-3) and novel-pose evaluations (Figs. 9-10) use held-out views and out-of-distribution poses from AIST++ and AMASS. No reported metric is a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction: the ablation in Table 5 shows a small but real effect of the alignment loss on held-out metrics, so the improvement is not forced by construction. The extracted-mesh claim in Sec. 6.6 does inherit smoothness and template shape from the SMPL mesh, but the paper is explicit about this design ('leveraging the mesh as a geometry regularizer'), making it a stated prior rather than a hidden circular step. There are no load-bearing self-citations: the method builds on external works such as SMPL, 3DGS, and prior Gaussian-avatar methods, none of which are by the present authors. No uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' own prior work, and no equation sets the predicted quantity equal to an input by definition. The paper is self-contained with respect to circularity; the unsupported 'first successful attempt' novelty claim, if challenged, would be a correctness or literature issue, not a circularity issue.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The method introduces no new physical entities. It relies on SMPL as an external geometric prior, a set of hand-chosen hyperparameters (epsilon, stage schedule, loss weights, learning rates), and several domain assumptions about the validity of mesh-guided regularization for monocular dynamic reconstruction. The projection derivation and loss weights are only available in an inaccessible supplementary, which limits independent evaluation.

free parameters (4)
  • Gaussian flatness scale epsilon (s0 = epsilon) = not specified numerically, 'epsilon << s1,s2'
    Chosen by hand to flatten adhered Gaussians into surfels (Sec. 4.1, Eq. 7); affects the strength of the geometric regularization.
  • Stage schedule: 3k adhered / 12k detached iterations = 3000 / 12000
    Chosen to balance geometry and expressivity; no ablation on the split ratio is given (Sec. 5.2).
  • Loss weights: lambda_lap, lambda_normal, lambda_mask, lambda_LPIPS = not reported in main text; delegated to supplementary
    Balance smoothness, mask, and perceptual terms in Eq. 15 and Eq. 26; values are not provided in the preprint, so the exact objective is not reproducible.
  • Initial learning rate for non-rigid and colorization MLPs = 1e-3 with 0.1 exponential decay
    Optimization hyperparameter (Sec. 5.2); standard choice but hand-set.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption SMPL is a sufficiently accurate coarse proxy for the real clothed human surface in canonical space.
    Used throughout Sec. 4.1-4.2; if violated, such as with loose clothing, the alignment regularizer could bias geometry instead of correcting it.
  • domain assumption Mesh alignment regularizes monocular dynamic reconstruction and improves novel view/pose generalization.
    Core hypothesis of the paper; supported only empirically by small-margin ablations (Tab. 4-5), not proven.
  • domain assumption Gaussian flattening with the smallest-scale axis as the surface normal adequately represents local surface orientation.
    Adhered Stage forces s = [epsilon, s1, s2] and R(0) = n_f (Eq. 7-8); assumes the real surface is locally flat at the Gaussian scale.
  • standard math Linear blend skinning with SMPL pose parameters describes articulated human deformation.
    Used in Sec. 4.4 Eq. 21; standard in the avatar literature.
  • domain assumption Projection of a Gaussian center onto its bound triangle (Eq. 11) is differentiable and valid for detached Gaussians.
    The derivation is deferred to a supplementary that is not included; the Detached Stage relies on this projection for rebinding and regularization.

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  title        = {Pith review of: SAGA: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Avatar},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2412.00845}
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This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time rendering. Recently,3DGS has emerged as a more efficient and expressive alternative to NeRF, and has been used for creating dynamic human avatars. However,when applied to the severely ill-posed task of monocular dynamic reconstruction, the Gaussians tend to overfit the constantly changing regions such as clothes wrinkles or shadows since these regions cannot provide consistent supervision, resulting in noisy geometry and abrupt deformation that typically fail to generalize under novel views and poses.To address these limitations, we present SAGA,i.e.,Surface-Aligned Gaussian Avatar,which aligns the Gaussians with a mesh to enforce well-defined geometry and consistent deformation, thereby improving generalization under novel views and poses. Unlike existing strict alignment methods that suffer from limited expressive power and low realism,SAGA employs a two-stage alignment strategy where the Gaussians are first adhered on while then detached from the mesh, thus facilitating both good geometry and high expressivity. In the Adhered Stage, we improve the flexibility of Adhered-on-Mesh Gaussians by allowing them to flow on the mesh, in contrast to existing methods that rigidly bind Gaussians to fixed location. In the second Detached Stage, we introduce a Gaussian-Mesh Alignment regularization, which allows us to unleash the expressivity by detaching the Gaussians but maintain the geometric alignment by minimizing their location and orientation offsets from the bound triangles. Finally, since the Gaussians may drift outside the bound triangles during optimization, an efficient Walking-on-Mesh strategy is proposed to dynamically update the bound triangles.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2412.00845 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. UPPER: Illustration of SAGA, i.e. Surface-aligned Gaussian Avatar for monocular drivable avatar reconstruction and animation. LOWER: Since monocular dynamic reconstruction is severely ill-posed, state-of-the-art methods either (a) overfit the scene with naive Gaussians or (b) overconstrain the Gaussians by fixing them on the mesh. In contrast, (c) SAGA applies a first-adhered-then-detached manner to effectively regu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. The framework of Surface-aligned Gaussian Avatar (SAGA). We model the human with a two-stage Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation in the canonical space, where the Gaussians are first strictly adhered on the SMPL mesh (Stage 1, Sec. 4.1), and then detached from the mesh to fit finer details (Stage 2, Sec. 4.2). The canonical Gaussians are sent into the Deformation & Colorization Module to transform them to the ob… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Illustration of the Adhered-on-Mesh Gaussian. We first a) align the Gaussian center on the triangle by defining it based on barycentric coordinates. Then in b), we make the Gaussian flat, and c) fix the direction of the smallest scale R(0) as the triangle normal nf to align the Gaussian orientation with the surface. Different from former fixed-on-mesh representation [28], [35], we simultaneously optimize the barycen… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Illustration of the Gaussian-mesh alignment losses, which consists of a position and a normal alignment loss. Position Alignment Loss. For a Gaussian G, the position￾alignment loss is defined as the minimum distance between the Gaussian center x and the corresponding t…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Illustration of the Walking-on-Mesh strategy applied in the Detached Stage. (a) An optimization step updates Gaussian G t bound with triangle f t to G t+1 . (b) We first check whether the updated Gaussian G t+1 is out of the current triangle f t based on projected bary…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Illustration of the retraction strategy for out-of-triangle Gaussians optimization in the Adhered Stage. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison results of novel view synthesis on ZJU-MoCap dataset [7] and MonoCap dataset [9]. For Gaussian based methods, 3DGS-Avatar [21] suffers from artifacts, GoMAvatar [35] struggles to fit details in the faces and hands, and GauHuman [22] synthesizes oversmoothed …
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison results of novel view synthesis with State-of-the-art methods on PeopleSnapshot Dataset [69]. All methods are Gaussian-based, except the last column that is NeRF-based. Our method can synthesize more photorealistic images, which are free of the artifacts (Ro…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison results of animating ZJU-MoCap subjects with out-of-distribution poses from AIST++ dataset [71]. Our method can synthesize more natural results without undesired artifacts. leading to overfitting to the low-variety A-pose. Consequently, these oversized Gauss…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison results of animating PeopleSnapshot subjects with out-of-distribution poses from AIST++ dataset [71].. Our method can synthesize more photorealistic and plausible results, while 3DGS-Avatar [21] and GoMAvatar [35] suffer from artifacts. (a) Ours Full (b) w/…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Novel view synthesis results of ablation study on the training stages. Ours Full with both the Adhered and the Detached Stage achieves the most photorealistic results, which avoid artifacts while having sharper details and more natural human expressions [PITH_FULL_IM…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Novel pose synthesis results of ablation study on the training stages, ours full synthesizes more photorealistic results, while the others suffer from blurry details at the zipper. w/ Alignment Loss w/o Alignment Loss Training View Novel View w/ Alignment Loss w/o Ali…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative results of ablation study on the proposed Gaussian-mesh Alignment Regularization. On the left are the ground-truth images from the training view and novel view, respectively. On the right are the rendering results. Ours with the alignment loss produces mor…
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Qualitative results of the ablation study on the design of the Adhered-on-mesh representation. Our flexible representation achieves higher quality in less training time. mesh as a geometry regularizer, our surface-aligned representation significantly improves the geom…
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Surface reconstruction results. Our proposed SAGA significantly improves the geometric quality comparing to the SOTA naive Gaussian based method 3DGS-Avatar [21]. accurately track the bound triangle as the Gaussians move during optimization. Our method efficiently fit…

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