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1 | Timezone: CST (UTC +8) | |||||||||
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3 | Day0: Saturday (December 6) - Registration 10:00 - 22:00 | |||||||||
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5 | Day1: Sunday (December 7) - Tutorials | Room | Presenter | Type | ||||||
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7 | 9:00 - 10:30 | Tutorial 1: Retrieval and Ranking with LLMs (R^2LLMs) Guido Zuccon, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma and Bevan Koopman | Function Room 2 | |||||||
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9 | Tutorial 2: Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation Weihang Su, Qian Dong, Qingyao Ai and Yiqun Liu | Function Room 7 | ||||||||
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11 | 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||
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13 | 11:00 - 12:30 | Tutorial 1: Retrieval and Ranking with LLMs (R^2LLMs) Guido Zuccon, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma and Bevan Koopman | Function Room 2 | |||||||
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15 | Tutorial 2: Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation Weihang Su, Qian Dong, Qingyao Ai and Yiqun Liu | Function Room 7 | ||||||||
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17 | 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break (lunchbox) | Function Room 1 | |||||||
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19 | 14:00 - 15:30 | Tutorial 3: Trustworthy Information Retrieval in the LLM Era: Bias, Unfairness, and Hallucination Sunhao Dai, Chen Xu, Shicheng Xu, Zhongxiang Sun, Liang Pang, Zhenhua Dong and Jun Xu | Function Room 2 | |||||||
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21 | Tutorial 4: Conversational Agents: From RAG to LTM Dell Zhang, Yue Feng, Haiming Liu, Changzhi Sun, Jixiang Luo, Xiangyu Chen and Xuelong Li | Function Room 7 | ||||||||
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23 | 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||
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25 | 16:00 - 17:30 | Tutorial 3: Trustworthy Information Retrieval in the LLM Era: Bias, Unfairness, and Hallucination Sunhao Dai, Chen Xu, Shicheng Xu, Zhongxiang Sun, Liang Pang, Zhenhua Dong and Jun Xu | Function Room 2 | |||||||
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27 | Tutorial 4: Conversational Agents: From RAG to LTM Dell Zhang, Yue Feng, Haiming Liu, Changzhi Sun, Jixiang Luo, Xiangyu Chen and Xuelong Li | Function Room 7 | ||||||||
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29 | 18:00-20:00 | Reception | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
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31 | Day2: Monday (December 8) - Main Conference | |||||||||
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33 | 9:00-9:20 | Opening | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
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35 | 9:20-10:20 | Keynote Talk 1: Preference-Based Evaluation Fernando Diaz, Carnegie Mellon University | ||||||||
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37 | 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break | ||||||||
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39 | 10:40-12:15 | Session 1 (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Session Chair: Guido Zuccon, University of Queensland | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
40 | ★ [ID=34, 15 Mins] CogPlanner: Unveiling the Potential of Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation with Planning (Poster #01) Xiaohan Yu, Zhihan Yang and Chong Chen | Xiaohan Yu | Virtual | |||||||
41 | [ID=60, 15 Mins] Rowen: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Hallucination Mitigation in LLMs (Poster #02) Hanxing Ding, Liang Pang, Zihao Wei, Huawei Shen and Xueqi Cheng | Liang Pang | Virtual | |||||||
42 | [ID=52, 15 Mins] Distilling a Small Utility-Based Passage Selector to Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Poster #03) Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Jiaming Zhang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin and Xueqi Cheng | Hengran Zhang | ||||||||
43 | [ID=113, 15 Mins] On the Diminishing Returns of Complex Robust RAG Training in the Era of Powerful LLMs (Poster #04) Hanxing Ding, Shuchang Tao, Liang Pang, Zihao Wei, Liwei Chen, Kun Xu, Huawei Shen and Xueqi Cheng | Liang Pang | Virtual | |||||||
44 | [ID=102, 10 Mins] Injecting External Knowledge into the Reasoning Process Enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Poster #05) Minghao Tang, Shiyu Ni, Jiafeng Guo and Keping Bi | Minghao Tang | ||||||||
45 | [ID=68, 10 Mins] VeriCite: Towards Reliable Citations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Rigorous Verification (Poster #06) Haosheng Qian, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Qi Chen, Dawei Yin and Xueqi Cheng | Yixing Fan | ||||||||
46 | [ID=13, 10 Mins] Geniie-Lab: A Testbed for Controlled Experimentation of Model Search Behaviour (Poster #07) Hideo Joho | Hideo Joho | ||||||||
47 | 12:15-13:30 | Lunch Break (buffet) | TANG (All Day Dining Restaurant) | |||||||
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49 | 13:30-14:00 | Industry Talk 1 by Xiaohongshu: Application of Multimodal LLM in Xiaohongshu Search Chair: Yixing Fan | Grand Ballroom | Daoxin Zhang | ||||||
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51 | 14:00-15:35 | Session 2: Bias, Fairness, Privacy, and Auditing Session Chair: Qingyao Ai, Tsinghua University | ||||||||
52 | [ID=100, 15 Mins] Developing a Framework for Auditing Large Language Models using Human-in-the-loop (Poster #08) Maryam Amirizaniani, Adrian Lavergne, Elizabeth Snell Okada, Aman Chadha, Tanya Roosta and Chirag Shah | Maryam Amirizaniani | Virtual | |||||||
53 | [ID=55, 15 Mins] Data Usage Privacy Auditing for Semi-supervised GNNs (Poster #09) Yang Li, Kaike Zhang, Bingbing Xu, Fei Sun, Qi Cao and Huawei Shen | Kaike Zhang | ||||||||
54 | [ID=46, 15 Mins] Do Large Language Models Favor Recent Content? (Poster #10) Hanpei Fang, Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Kai-Xin Chang and Tetsuya Sakai | Hanpei Fang | ||||||||
55 | [ID=70, 15 Mins] GDA: Graph Distance Autoencoder for Label-only Membership Inference Attack on GNNs (Poster #11) Yang Li, Yunfan Wu, Bingbing Xu, Fei Sun, Qi Cao and Huawei Shen | Yunfan Wu | Virtual | |||||||
56 | [ID=66, 10 Mins] Measuring Group Fairness in Web Search: AWRF or GFR? (Poster #12) Sijie Tao and Tetsuya Sakai | Sijie Tao | ||||||||
57 | [ID=84, 10 Mins] Who Gets to be an Expert? The Hidden Bias in Expert Finding (Poster #13) Seyedehfatemeh Karimi, Havva Alizadeh Noughabi, Fattane Zarrinkalam and Morteza Zihayat | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Virtual | |||||||
58 | [ID=88, 10 Mins] Synthetic Prefixes to Mitigate Bias in Real-Time Neural Query Autocomplete (Poster #14) Adithya Rajan, Xiaoyu Liu, Prateek Verma and Vibhu Arora | Adithya Rajan | Virtual | |||||||
59 | 15:35-16:30 | Poster Session & Coffee Break | ||||||||
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61 | 16:30 - 18:10 | Session 3: Applications Session Chair: Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
62 | [ID=37, 15 Mins] Retrieval-Augmented NL2SQL Generation with Data-Centric Query Capsules for Enterprise Applications (Poster #15) Jisoo Jang and Wen-Syan Li | Jisoo Jang | ||||||||
63 | [ID=38, 15 Mins] Human vs. Agent in Task-Oriented Conversations (Poster #16) Zhefan Wang, Ning Geng, Zhiqiang Guo, Weizhi Ma and Min Zhang | Zhefan Wang | ||||||||
64 | [ID=36, 15 Mins] Beyond GeneGPT: A Multi-Agent Architecture with Open-Source LLMs for Enhanced Genomic Question Answering (Poster #17) Haodong Chen, Guido Zuccon and Teerapong Leelanupab | Haodong Chen | ||||||||
65 | [TOIS, 15 Mins] Causal Inference in Recommender Systems: A Survey and Future Directions (Poster #18) Chen Gao, Yu Zheng, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He and Yong Li | Chen Gao | ||||||||
66 | [ID=90, 10 Mins] Accurate and Diverse Recommendations via Propensity-Weighted Linear Autoencoders (Poster #19) Kazuma Onishi, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Hidetaka Kamigaito | Kazuma Onishi | ||||||||
67 | ★ [ID=48, 10 Mins] FalseCoTQA: Adversarial Multi-Hop QA via Knowledge-Grounded False Chains of Thought (Poster #20) Julien Serbanescu, Mahdiyar Ali Akbar Alavi, Faezeh Ensan and Fattane Zarrinkalam | Fattane Zarrinkalam | Virtual | |||||||
68 | [ID=20, 10 Mins] Improving Math Information Retrieval via Query Rewriting with LLMs (Poster #21) Reihaneh Maarefdoust, Mandy Ho, Aidan Bell and Behrooz Mansouri | Reihaneh Maarefdoust | Virtual | |||||||
69 | Dinner (on your own) | |||||||||
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71 | Day3: Tuesday (December 9) - Main Conference | |||||||||
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73 | 9:00-10:00 | Keynote Talk 2: LLMs vs. Humans in Information Access Tasks: Performances, Behaviors, and Learning Abilities Min Zhang, Tsinghua University | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
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75 | 10:00-10:20 | Coffee Break | ||||||||
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77 | 10:20-12:10 | Session 4: Ranking Session Chair: Makoto Kato, University of Tsukuba | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
78 | [ID=35, 15 Mins] RaCT: Ranking-aware Chain-of-Thought Optimization for LLMs (Poster #22) Haowei Liu, Xuyang Wu, Guohao Sun, Hsin-Tai Wu, Zhiqiang Tao and Yi Fang | Haowei Liu | ||||||||
79 | [ID=74, 15 Mins] Reproducing and Extending Causal Insights Into Term Frequency Computation in Neural Rankers (Poster #23) Cile van Marken and Roxana Petcu | Cile van Marken | Virtual | |||||||
80 | [ID=8, 15 Mins] REGENT: Relevance-Guided Attention for Entity-Aware Multi-Vector Neural Re-Ranking (Poster #24) Shubham Chatterjee | Shubham Chatterjee | Virtual | |||||||
81 | ★ [ID=112, 15 Mins] Adversarial Attacks against Neural Ranking Models via In-Context Learning (Poster #25) Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Ebrahim Bagheri and Charles L. A. Clarke | Charles L. A. Clarke | ||||||||
82 | [ID=3, 15 Mins] SimPD: Comparing Two Ranked Lists based on Promotion and Demotion Magnitudes (Poster #26) Tetsuya Sakai | Tetsuya Sakai | ||||||||
83 | [ID=106, 15 Mins] TVR-Ranking: A Dataset for Ranked Video Moment Retrieval with Imprecise Queries (Poster #27) Renjie Liang, Chongzhi Zhang, Li Li, Jing Wang, Xizhou Zhu and Aixin Sun | Chongzhi Zhang | Virtual | |||||||
84 | 12:10-13:30 | Lunch Break (buffet) | TANG (All Day Dining Restaurant) | |||||||
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86 | 13:30-13:45 | Industry Talk 2 by Kuaishou: Recent Technical Advances in Recommender System of Kuaishou Chair: Yixing Fan | Grand Ballroom | Ruiming Tang | ||||||
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88 | 13:45-15:15 | Session 5: Representation Learning and Retrieval Session Chair: Zhaochun Ren, Leiden University | ||||||||
89 | [ID=1, 15 Mins] A Combination-based Framework for Generative Text-image Retrieval (Poster #28) Kaipeng Li, Haitao Yu, Yubo Fang and Chao Lei | Yubo Fang | ||||||||
90 | [ID=39, 15 Mins] Learning Refined Document Representations for Dense Retrieval via Deliberate Thinking (Poster #29) Yifan Ji, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Shi Yu, Yishan Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Yu Gu, Ge Yu and Maosong Sun | Yifan Ji | ||||||||
91 | [ID=51, 15 Mins] On the Interplay Between Graph Quality, Traversal Strategies, and Performance of ANN Retrieval Methods (Poster #30) Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sean MacAvaney, Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder | Hrishikesh Kulkarni | Virtual | |||||||
92 | [ID=14, 15 Mins] A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Video Moment Search (Poster #31) Chongzhi Zhang, Xizhou Zhu and Aixin Sun | Chongzhi Zhang | Virtual | |||||||
93 | [ID=9, 10 Mins] Empirical Asymptotic Growth of Dynamic Pruning Mechanisms (Poster #32) Luke Gallagher, Joel Mackenzie and Alistair Moffat | Alistair Moffat | Virtual | |||||||
94 | [ID=56, 10 Mins] C2T-ID: Converting Semantic Codebooks to Textual Document Identifiers for Generative Search (Poster #33) Yingchen Zhang, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Wenjun Peng, Sen Li, Fuyu Lv and Xueqi Cheng | Yingchen Zhang | ||||||||
95 | ★ [ID=98, 10 Mins] ScaleFormer: Span Representation Cumulation for Long-Context Transformer (Poster #34) Jiangshu Du, Wenpeng Yin and Philip Yu | Jiangshu Du | Virtual | |||||||
96 | 15:15-16:15 | Poster Session & Coffee Break | ||||||||
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98 | 16:15 - 17:45 | Session 6: Recommender Systems Session Chair: Min Zhang, Tsinghua University | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
99 | [ID=16, 15 Mins] MARCO: Cooperative Knowledge Transfer for Cross-domain Recommendations (Poster #35) Lili Xie, Yi Zhang, Ruihong Qiu, Jiajun Liu and Sen Wang | Lili Xie | ||||||||
100 | [ID=22, 15 Mins] LLM4MEA: Data-free Model Extraction Attacks on Sequential Recommenders (Poster #36) Shilong Zhao, Fei Sun, Kaike Zhang, Shaoling Jing, Du Su, Zhichao Shi, Zhiyi Yin, Huawei Shen and Xueqi Cheng | Shilong Zhao | ||||||||
101 | [ID=12, 15 Mins] Limitations of Current Evaluation Practices for Conversational Recommender Systems (Poster #37) Nolwenn Bernard and Krisztian Balog | Nolwenn Bernard | ||||||||
102 | [ID=63, 15 Mins] Dual-Enhanced Item Representation for Bundle Construction via Category-Wise and Cross-Modality Learning (Poster #38) Long-Hai Nguyen, Huy-Son Nguyen, Cam-Van Thi Nguyen, Duc-Trong Le, Atsuhiro Takasu and Hoang-Quynh Le | Long-Hai Nguyen | ||||||||
103 | [TOIS, 15 Mins] Contrastive Clustering Learning for Multi-Behavior Recommendation (Poster #39) Wei Lan, Guoxian Zhou, Qingfeng Chen, Wenguang Wang, Shirui Pan, Yi Pan and Shichao Zhang | Wei Lan | ||||||||
104 | [TOIS, 15 Mins] Augmentation with Neighboring Information for Conversational Recommendation (Poster #40) Yuanxing Liu, Jiahuan Pei, Wei-Nan Zhang, Ming Li, Wanxiang Che and Maarten de Rijke | Yuanxing Liu | ||||||||
105 | 18:30 - 20:30 | Banquet | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
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107 | Day4: Wednesday (December 10) - Main Conference & Workshops | |||||||||
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109 | 9:00-10:15 | Session 7: Language Modeling Session Chair: Haitao Yu, University of Tsukuba | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
110 | [ID=58, 15 Mins] ATACompressor: Adaptive Task-Aware Compression for Efficient Long-Context Processing in LLMs (Poster #41) Xuancheng Li, Haitao Li, Yujia Zhou, Qingyao Ai and Yiqun Liu | Xuancheng Li | ||||||||
111 | ★ [ID=64, 15 Mins] Investigating LLM Variability in Personalized Conversational Information Retrieval (Poster #42) Simon Lupart, Daniël van Dijk, Eric Langezaal, Ian van Dort and Mohammad Aliannejadi | Daniël van Dijk | ||||||||
112 | [ID=28, 15 Mins] Impact of LLM-Modified Queries and Documents in Training Data on Neural Retrieval Models (Poster #43) Yuto Nakachi and Makoto P. Kato | Yuto Nakachi | ||||||||
113 | [ID=114, 15 Mins] Text Clustering as Classification with LLMs (Poster #44) Chen Huang and Guoxiu He | Chen Huang | ||||||||
114 | [TOIS, 15 Mins] Tagging Items with Emerging Tags: A Neural Topic Model Based Few-Shot Learning Approach (Poster #45) Shangkun Che, Hongyan Liu and Shen Liu | Shangkun Che | ||||||||
115 | 10:15-10:35 | Coffee Break | ||||||||
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117 | 10:35-12:05 | Session 8: User-System Interactions and Benchmarking Session Chair: Jiaxin Mao, Renmin University of China | Grand Ballroom | |||||||
118 | [ID=82, 15 Mins] ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments (Poster #46) Shuoqi Sun, Danula Hettiachchi and Damiano Spina | Shuoqi Sun | ||||||||
119 | [ID=27, 15 Mins] Beyond Static Evaluation: Rethinking the Assessment of Personalized Agent Adaptability (Poster #47) Kirandeep Kaur, Preetam Dammu, Hideo Joho and Chirag Shah | Hideo Joho | ||||||||
120 | [ID=41, 15 Mins] CT-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Chinese Text-to-Table Generation (Poster #48) Haoxiang Shi, Jiaan Wang, Cen Wang and Tetsuya Sakai | Haoxiang Shi | ||||||||
121 | [ID=65, 15 Mins] Which Programming Language and Model Work Best With LLM-as-a-judge for Code Retrieval? (Poster #49) Lucas Roberts and Denisa Roberts | Lucas Roberts | Virtual | |||||||
122 | [ID=81, 15 Mins] Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks (Poster #50) Jiaman He, Zikang Leng, Dana McKay, Damiano Spina and Johanne R. Trippas | Jiaman He | ||||||||
123 | [TOIS, 15 Mins] Adapting Constrained Markov Decision Process for OCPC Bidding with Delayed Conversions (Poster #51) Leping Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yichao Wang, Xuan Li, Zhenhua Dong and Jun Xu | Leping Zhang | ||||||||
124 | 12:05-12:20 | Closing | ||||||||
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126 | 12:20-14:00 | Lunch (lunchbox) | Function Room 1 | |||||||
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128 | 14:00-15:30 | Workshop 1: BREV-RAG: Beyond Relevance-based EValuation of RAG systems Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao, Zhicheng Dou, Junjie Wang, Haoxiang Shi, Nuo Chen, Atsushi Keyaki | Grand Ballroom 2 | |||||||
129 | Workshop 2: R3AG 2025: Workshop on Refined and Reliable Retrieval-Augmented Generation Haitao Yu, Yubo Fang, Xuri Ge, Xin xin, Zihan Wang, Junchen Fu, Joemon M. Jose, Weizhi Ma, and Zhaochun Ren | Grand Ballroom 3 | ||||||||
130 | 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||||||
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132 | 16:00-17:30 | Workshop 1: BREV-RAG: Beyond Relevance-based EValuation of RAG systems Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao, Zhicheng Dou, Junjie Wang, Haoxiang Shi, Nuo Chen, Atsushi Keyaki | Grand Ballroom 2 | |||||||
133 | Workshop 2: R3AG 2025: Workshop on Refined and Reliable Retrieval-Augmented Generation Haitao Yu, Yubo Fang, Xuri Ge, Xin xin, Zihan Wang, Junchen Fu, Joemon M. Jose, Weizhi Ma, and Zhaochun Ren | Grand Ballroom 3 | ||||||||
134 | Poster-only TOIS Presentations | |||||||||
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136 | [TOIS] Decoy Effect In Search Interaction: Understanding User Behavior and Measuring System Vulnerability (Poster #52) Nuo Chen, Jiqun Liu, Hanpei Fang, Yuankai Luo, Tetsuya Sakai and Xiao-Ming Wu | |||||||||
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