Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity

Brejesh Lall; Devineni Sri Venkatraya Chowdary; Himanshu kumar; Prashant Pandey

arxiv: 2605.20538 · v1 · pith:PHO2E3NDnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CV

Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity

Prashant Pandey , Himanshu Kumar , Devineni Sri Venkatraya Chowdary , Brejesh Lall This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 06:37 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV

keywords continual segmentationjoint nonstationaritygradient-adaptive stabilizationprototype anchored supervisionsemi-supervised learningclass-incrementaldomain-incrementalfew-shot segmentation

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Gradient-adaptive stabilization and prototype anchored supervision enable learning in continual segmentation under simultaneous class, domain, and label shifts.

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

The paper formalizes continual semantic segmentation where semantic classes, input distributions, and supervision availability all change together over time. Prior continual learning research typically isolates these factors, but practical dense prediction systems encounter them jointly. The authors introduce gradient-adaptive stabilization through parameter-wise regularization via gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations to achieve a stability-plasticity tradeoff. They also propose prototype anchored supervision to validate pseudo-labels from unlabeled data using combined confidence and prototype consistency checks. Experiments across class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes show consistent gains over prior methods while exposing failure modes in existing approaches.

Core claim

Gradient-adaptive stabilization and prototype anchored supervision together enable learning under joint nonstationarity in continual segmentation, with consistent improvements over prior methods across class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes.

What carries the argument

Gradient-adaptive stabilization via gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations for parameter regularization, paired with prototype anchored supervision that validates pseudo-labels through joint confidence and prototype consistency.

If this is right

Existing continual segmentation methods exhibit fundamental failure modes when class, domain, and label shifts occur together.
Unlabeled data can be leveraged reliably through semi-supervised consistency checks on prototypes.
The stability-plasticity tradeoff supports dense prediction in heterogeneous environments with limited annotations.
Performance gains appear consistently in class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot continual segmentation settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same regularization and consistency mechanisms could transfer to other structured prediction tasks such as depth estimation under evolving conditions.
Real-time adaptation in applications like autonomous driving or medical imaging might require less full retraining if these checks scale to extreme joint shifts.
Further tests with even sparser labels or faster distribution changes could reveal whether the tradeoff remains stable beyond the reported regimes.

Load-bearing premise

The gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations and joint confidence-prototype consistency checks will produce a stable stability-plasticity tradeoff without introducing new overfitting or pseudo-label errors under simultaneous class, domain, and label shifts.

What would settle it

An experiment in which applying the proposed mechanisms increases overfitting rates or pseudo-label errors under simultaneous class, domain, and label shifts would disprove the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20538 by Brejesh Lall, Devineni Sri Venkatraya Chowdary, Himanshu kumar, Prashant Pandey.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Class-incremental (CI), few-shot (FS), and domainincremental (DI) constraints all lead to significantly reduced Dice scores compared to the unconstrained fine-tuning (“no constraint”) on the common base model. 1 Introduction The pursuit of adaptive intelligent systems requires learning from data streams whose underlying distributions evolve over time. While continual learning (CL) (Wang et al., 2024; Yuan… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Fine-tuning the Session 0 base model in incremental Session 1 causes all backbones to drop in performance, whether their weights are partially frozen (top) or fully unfrozen (bottom). realistic continual segmentation setting with coupled class, domain, and supervision shifts, exposing fundamental failure modes of existing continual learning methods under joint nonstationarity. (ii) We propose gradient-ada… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: At session t, gradient adaptive stabilization (GAS) is applied to the decoder’s pixel classifier F of Ms. With unlabeled data, a mean-teacher model Mt generates pseudo-labels via similarity matching (τsim), and only high-confidence predictions (τconf) contribute to a consistency loss. Prototype anchored supervision (PAS) uses labeled prototypes Pc to validate pseudo-labels in both prediction and feature sp… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Performance of JASCL without unlabeled data (Med JASCL-Disjoint) and with unlabeled data (Med Semi-SupervisedJASCL). ‘SS’ is Semi-Supervised [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: a) (top) JASCL without Gradient adaptive stabilization (GAS) evaluated with MedFormer (Med JASCL-Mixed). b) (bottom) JASCL without prototype anchored supervision (PAS) on Semi-Supervised Natural-JASCL benchmark. Computational overhead: The computational analysis (Table 5) for Session 1 shows that JASCL adds no extra cost yet yields notable performance improvements over the Vanilla baseline (w/o JASCL). J… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: (a-c) Performance of JASCL on the Med JASCL-Disjoint benchmark and its variant, Med Semi-Supervised-JASCL (which includes additional unlabeled data), evaluated across incremental sessions (TS (Base) → AMOS → BCV → MOTS → BraTS → VerSe). SS refers to Semi-Supervised. SS JASCL denotes the performance of JASCL on the Med Semi-Supervised-JASCL benchmark. The reported results confirm that unlabeled data helps t… view at source ↗

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Evolving data streams induce joint nonstationarity in continual semantic segmentation, where semantic classes, input distributions, and supervision availability change simultaneously over time. This setting reflects practical structured prediction systems, yet remains largely unexplored in prior continual learning work, which typically studies these factors in isolation. We formalize continual segmentation under coupled class, domain, and label shifts and investigate learning in heterogeneous dense prediction environments with limited annotations and abundant unlabeled data. To address instability and overfitting arising from few-shot supervision under distribution drift, we introduce gradient-adaptive stabilization, a parameter-wise regularization mechanism implemented via gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations that promotes a principled stability-plasticity tradeoff. We further leverage unlabeled data through semi-supervised learning and introduce prototype anchored supervision that validates pseudo-labels via joint confidence and prototype consistency. Together, these mechanisms enable learning under joint nonstationarity in continual segmentation. Extensive empirical evaluation across class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes demonstrates consistent improvements over prior methods in heterogeneous structured prediction settings. Our results expose fundamental failure modes of existing continual segmentation approaches and provide insight into learning robust dense predictors in dynamically evolving environments.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper formalizes joint nonstationarity for continual segmentation but evaluates only on separate incremental regimes instead of a single coupled stream.

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This paper formalizes continual segmentation under simultaneous class, domain, and label shifts but evaluates its methods only on the usual isolated incremental regimes. That mismatch is the main thing to flag for a colleague skimming it quickly. The authors define the joint nonstationarity setting explicitly and propose two concrete fixes for instability under few-shot supervision and drift: gradient-adaptive stabilization, which applies gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations to encourage a stability-plasticity tradeoff, and prototype-anchored supervision, which filters pseudo-labels using both confidence scores and consistency with learned prototypes from unlabeled data. These draw from stability-plasticity principles and semi-supervised consistency ideas but target dense prediction specifically. The work does a solid job calling out that real deployed systems face multiple shifts at once and that prior continual segmentation papers have mostly studied the factors one by one. It also notes failure modes in existing approaches under heterogeneous conditions. The central soft spot is the evidence gap the stress-test note identifies. Results are reported across class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes treated separately, which are already standard in the literature. There is no clear description of a single evolving stream where all three shifts occur concurrently, so the empirical support for handling truly joint nonstationarity is indirect at best. The abstract also omits error bars, detailed ablations, and derivation steps for the stabilization rule, which makes it harder to judge robustness. This paper is aimed at researchers working on continual learning for semantic segmentation in changing environments with limited labels. A reader focused on practical vision systems under distribution drift could extract useful mechanisms to try, though they would probably need to add their own joint-shift experiments. I would send it to peer review rather than desk reject it. The formalization and mechanisms are grounded enough to merit referee input, even if the current experiments need tightening to match the joint claim.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper formalizes continual semantic segmentation under joint nonstationarity from simultaneous class, domain, and label shifts in evolving data streams. It proposes gradient-adaptive stabilization implemented via gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations to achieve a stability-plasticity tradeoff, along with prototype anchored supervision that validates pseudo-labels using joint confidence and prototype consistency checks on unlabeled data. The work claims these mechanisms enable robust learning in heterogeneous dense prediction settings with limited annotations and reports consistent empirical gains over prior methods across class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes.

Significance. If the proposed mechanisms were shown to stabilize learning specifically under concurrent coupled shifts in a single stream, the contribution would address a practical gap in continual learning for structured prediction, moving beyond isolated shift settings. The gradient-adaptive regularization and prototype consistency ideas could provide useful tools for few-shot dense prediction under drift, with potential for broader application in real-world evolving environments.

major comments (2)

Abstract: The central claim concerns enabling learning under 'joint nonstationarity' and 'coupled class, domain, and label shifts' occurring simultaneously in one stream. However, the reported evaluation covers only isolated 'class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes,' which are standard separate settings from prior work. This leaves the headline claim without direct empirical support, as the joint concurrent setting is not instantiated or tested.
Abstract and Methods: No error bars, ablation studies on the stabilization parameters, or derivation of the gradient-scaled perturbation rule are provided. Without these, it is not possible to verify that the stability-plasticity tradeoff holds or that the consistency checks avoid new pseudo-label errors under the claimed joint shifts.

minor comments (1)

Notation for prototype consistency and gradient scaling could be made more explicit with an equation or pseudocode to aid reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, offering clarifications where appropriate and committing to revisions that strengthen the presentation without altering the core contributions.

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Referee: Abstract: The central claim concerns enabling learning under 'joint nonstationarity' and 'coupled class, domain, and label shifts' occurring simultaneously in one stream. However, the reported evaluation covers only isolated 'class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes,' which are standard separate settings from prior work. This leaves the headline claim without direct empirical support, as the joint concurrent setting is not instantiated or tested.

Authors: We appreciate the referee's observation regarding the distinction between the formalized setting and the experiments. The manuscript defines continual segmentation under joint nonstationarity arising from coupled class, domain, and label shifts that may occur together in evolving streams. The experimental sections evaluate the proposed gradient-adaptive stabilization and prototype anchored supervision on standard benchmarks for class-incremental, domain-incremental, and few-shot regimes. These benchmarks feature sequential shifts whose combined effects approximate the challenges of simultaneous coupled nonstationarity in practice. The mechanisms are designed to be robust to such coupled dynamics rather than being limited to isolated shifts. To align the abstract more closely with the reported results, we will revise the wording to state that the evaluation demonstrates consistent gains across these regimes, which collectively address key aspects of joint nonstationarity. We believe this provides relevant empirical grounding for the practical utility of the approach. revision: partial
Referee: Abstract and Methods: No error bars, ablation studies on the stabilization parameters, or derivation of the gradient-scaled perturbation rule are provided. Without these, it is not possible to verify that the stability-plasticity tradeoff holds or that the consistency checks avoid new pseudo-label errors under the claimed joint shifts.

Authors: We thank the referee for noting these omissions. The full manuscript reports results averaged over multiple random seeds, and we will add explicit error bars (standard deviations) to all quantitative tables in the revision. Ablation studies examining the impact of the gradient scaling factor in the stabilization mechanism and the confidence/prototype consistency thresholds are included in the supplementary material; we will move the most informative ablations into the main experimental section. The gradient-scaled perturbation rule is obtained by setting the perturbation variance for each parameter proportional to its gradient magnitude, which encourages updates in directions of high plasticity while damping changes in stable directions. We will insert a concise derivation of this rule, along with a brief analysis of how it contributes to the stability-plasticity tradeoff, into the methods section. These additions will facilitate verification of the mechanisms' behavior under the shift conditions studied. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: methods introduced from external principles with independent empirical validation

full rationale

The paper formalizes the joint nonstationarity problem and introduces gradient-adaptive stabilization (via gradient-scaled stochastic perturbations) and prototype anchored supervision (via confidence-prototype consistency) as mechanisms drawn from stability-plasticity and semi-supervised consistency ideas. No equations, self-citations, or fitted parameters are shown reducing the central claims or predictions back to the inputs by construction. Evaluation across regimes is presented as external validation rather than a self-referential loop. This is a standard self-contained derivation with no load-bearing self-reference or renaming of known results.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review yields limited visibility into parameters or assumptions; the central claim rests on the domain assumption that joint shifts can be addressed by the described regularization and consistency checks without further justification of their interaction.

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domain assumption Joint class, domain, and label shifts can be modeled and mitigated simultaneously via parameter-wise gradient scaling and prototype consistency
Invoked when the abstract states that the mechanisms address instability and overfitting arising from few-shot supervision under distribution drift.

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GAS adapts to the current distribution by recomputing noise scales from current gradients, achievingO(dδ 2)divergence

Adaptivity to Domain Shift:Static and memory-based methods use fixed or outdated Fisher estimates, incurring KL divergence Ω(γ2 F ∆2 t ) under domain shift. GAS adapts to the current distribution by recomputing noise scales from current gradients, achievingO(dδ 2)divergence

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Curvature-Aware Perturbation:Unlike adversarial methods (SAM, STAR) that allocate perturbation budget uni- formly in ℓ2-norm—thereby concentrating on high-curvature directions—GAS allocates inversely proportional to curvature, minimizing expected loss increase by a factor of up toκ/din the worst case

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confidence criterion satisfied

Generalization via PAC-Bayes:The anisotropic posterior induced by GAS achieves lower KL divergence to the true Laplace posterior than isotropic alternatives, yielding tighter PAC-Bayes generalization bounds when Fisher information is heterogeneous across parameters. 5.Conditions for Optimality:GAS’s advantages are most pronounced when: • Domain shift is p...

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The memory bank error sequence{e t}is non-decreasing:e t+1 ≥e t for allt

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Ifg(e)> efore∈[0, e ∗)wheree ∗ >0, thenlim t→∞ et ≥e ∗

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Proof.Part (i):By (110) and Assumption B.22: et+1 −e t = (1−η)e t +ηδ t −e t =η(δ t −e t) =η(g(e t)−e t) ≥0, sinceg(e)≥eby assumption

The precision of memory bank methods satisfiesρ mem(t) = 1−e t, which is non-increasing int. Proof.Part (i):By (110) and Assumption B.22: et+1 −e t = (1−η)e t +ηδ t −e t =η(δ t −e t) =η(g(e t)−e t) ≥0, sinceg(e)≥eby assumption. Part (ii):The sequence {et} is non-decreasing and bounded above by 1, so it converges to some limit e∞ ∈[0,1] . Taking limits in ...

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There existsT ∗ <∞such that for allt≥T ∗: ρPAS > ρmem(t)

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Proof.Part (i):By Lemma B.23,ρ mem(t) = 1−e t →1−e ∞ ≤1−e ∗

Fort≥T ∗ with equal effective coverage: ϵPAS ∞ < ϵmem ∞ (t). Proof.Part (i):By Lemma B.23,ρ mem(t) = 1−e t →1−e ∞ ≤1−e ∗. PAS computes prototypes from labeled data only: µc = 1 |D(c) l | X x∈D(c) l fθ(x). 31 Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity Table 10.JASCL sensitivity/robustness analysis acrossε, noise variance, and number of shotsK. Sett...

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Error Dynamics Framework:Under the linear mixing assumption, the asymptotic error of any filtering-based semi-supervised method is: ϵ∞(f, ρ) = (1−f γ)ϵ 0 1−f γ(1−ρ) , which is strictly decreasing in precisionρ

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3.PAS vs

Dual-Criteria Precision Gain:Under conditional independence of criteria, adding a discriminative second criterion (LR2 >1) strictly improves precision: ρ12 > ρ1 ⇐ ⇒α 2 > β2. 3.PAS vs. Confidence-Only:PAS achievesρ PAS > ρconf when the similarity criterion is discriminative

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Consistency-Based:PAS achieves ρPAS > π (the base precision), whereas consistency methods operate at precisionπ

PAS vs. Consistency-Based:PAS achieves ρPAS > π (the base precision), whereas consistency methods operate at precisionπ

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important

PAS vs. Memory Bank:PAS maintains constant precision while memory bank methods suffer monotonic precision degradation due to error accumulation, leading to PAS dominance fort≥T ∗. 6.Asymptotic Error Ordering:For sufficiently largetand equal effective coverage: ϵPAS ∞ < ϵconf ∞ < ϵcons ∞ =ϵ 0, ϵ PAS ∞ < ϵmem ∞ (t). C Robustness and sensitivity analysis of ...

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Gradient-Fisher Correspondence:Under Assumption A.10, GAS’s noise scaling ˜G2 i ∝1/g 2 i ≈1/F ii approximates the optimal posterior variance under Laplace approximation, achieving variance ratioσ 2 q /σ2 π = 1 +O(δ)

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GAS adapts to the current distribution by recomputing noise scales from current gradients, achievingO(dδ 2)divergence

Adaptivity to Domain Shift:Static and memory-based methods use fixed or outdated Fisher estimates, incurring KL divergence Ω(γ2 F ∆2 t ) under domain shift. GAS adapts to the current distribution by recomputing noise scales from current gradients, achievingO(dδ 2)divergence

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Curvature-Aware Perturbation:Unlike adversarial methods (SAM, STAR) that allocate perturbation budget uni- formly in ℓ2-norm—thereby concentrating on high-curvature directions—GAS allocates inversely proportional to curvature, minimizing expected loss increase by a factor of up toκ/din the worst case

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confidence criterion satisfied

Generalization via PAC-Bayes:The anisotropic posterior induced by GAS achieves lower KL divergence to the true Laplace posterior than isotropic alternatives, yielding tighter PAC-Bayes generalization bounds when Fisher information is heterogeneous across parameters. 5.Conditions for Optimality:GAS’s advantages are most pronounced when: • Domain shift is p...

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The memory bank error sequence{e t}is non-decreasing:e t+1 ≥e t for allt

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Ifg(e)> efore∈[0, e ∗)wheree ∗ >0, thenlim t→∞ et ≥e ∗

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Proof.Part (i):By (110) and Assumption B.22: et+1 −e t = (1−η)e t +ηδ t −e t =η(δ t −e t) =η(g(e t)−e t) ≥0, sinceg(e)≥eby assumption

The precision of memory bank methods satisfiesρ mem(t) = 1−e t, which is non-increasing int. Proof.Part (i):By (110) and Assumption B.22: et+1 −e t = (1−η)e t +ηδ t −e t =η(δ t −e t) =η(g(e t)−e t) ≥0, sinceg(e)≥eby assumption. Part (ii):The sequence {et} is non-decreasing and bounded above by 1, so it converges to some limit e∞ ∈[0,1] . Taking limits in ...

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There existsT ∗ <∞such that for allt≥T ∗: ρPAS > ρmem(t)

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Proof.Part (i):By Lemma B.23,ρ mem(t) = 1−e t →1−e ∞ ≤1−e ∗

Fort≥T ∗ with equal effective coverage: ϵPAS ∞ < ϵmem ∞ (t). Proof.Part (i):By Lemma B.23,ρ mem(t) = 1−e t →1−e ∞ ≤1−e ∗. PAS computes prototypes from labeled data only: µc = 1 |D(c) l | X x∈D(c) l fθ(x). 31 Continual Segmentation under Joint Nonstationarity Table 10.JASCL sensitivity/robustness analysis acrossε, noise variance, and number of shotsK. Sett...

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Error Dynamics Framework:Under the linear mixing assumption, the asymptotic error of any filtering-based semi-supervised method is: ϵ∞(f, ρ) = (1−f γ)ϵ 0 1−f γ(1−ρ) , which is strictly decreasing in precisionρ

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3.PAS vs

Dual-Criteria Precision Gain:Under conditional independence of criteria, adding a discriminative second criterion (LR2 >1) strictly improves precision: ρ12 > ρ1 ⇐ ⇒α 2 > β2. 3.PAS vs. Confidence-Only:PAS achievesρ PAS > ρconf when the similarity criterion is discriminative

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Consistency-Based:PAS achieves ρPAS > π (the base precision), whereas consistency methods operate at precisionπ

PAS vs. Consistency-Based:PAS achieves ρPAS > π (the base precision), whereas consistency methods operate at precisionπ

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PAS vs. Memory Bank:PAS maintains constant precision while memory bank methods suffer monotonic precision degradation due to error accumulation, leading to PAS dominance fort≥T ∗. 6.Asymptotic Error Ordering:For sufficiently largetand equal effective coverage: ϵPAS ∞ < ϵconf ∞ < ϵcons ∞ =ϵ 0, ϵ PAS ∞ < ϵmem ∞ (t). C Robustness and sensitivity analysis of ...

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