Dr Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig

  • Research Associate (School of Computing Science)

email: Javier.Sanz-CruzadoPuig@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

F111, 18 Lilybank Gardens, School of Computing Science, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8RZ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174

Research interests

  • Recommender systems
  • Information retrieval
  • Social network analysis

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
Number of items: 24.

2025

Chen, Chung-Chi, Lee, Yongjae, Lopez-Lira, Alejandro, Choi, Chanyeol, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 (2025) Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Lever, Jake ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939 (2025) Accelerating Cross-Encoders in Biomedical Entity Linking. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 24th BioNLP Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 1 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2025) Evaluating Knowledge Graph Sources for Non-Personalized Financial Asset Recommendation: 10K Reports vs. Wikidata. In: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Takayanagi, Takehiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2025) Are Generative AI Agents Effective Personalized Financial Advisors? In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Sánchez, Pablo, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Bellogin, Alejandro (2024) Improving Novelty and Diversity of Nearest-Neighbors Recommendation by Exploiting Dissimilarities. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Takayanagi, Takehiro, Suzuki, Masahiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yejin, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Mean-Variance Efficient Sampling. In: 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 14-17 November 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) University of Glasgow at the FinLLM Challenge Task: Adapting Llama for Financial News Abstractive Summarization. Joint Workshop of the 8th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), Jeju, Korea, 3 Aug 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) Comparing the Impact of Financial Knowledge Graphs from Financial Reports and Wikidata in Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.

Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yeyin, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Diversification-Enhancing Contrastive Learning. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Droukas, Nikolaos and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.

2023

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Richards, Edward and McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2023) FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 Mar 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 (2023) Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers. Project Report. University of Glasgow, UK.

2022

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Droukas, Nikolaos, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2022) On Transaction-Based Metrics as a Proxy for Profitability of Financial Asset Recommendations. 3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services, Seattle, WA, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022.

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2022) RELISON: A Framework for Link Recommendation in Social Networks. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2992-3002. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531730)

2020

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2020) Effective contact recommendation in social networks by adaptation of information retrieval models. Information Processing and Management, 57(5), 102285. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102285)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2020) Beyond accuracy in link prediction. In: Boratto, L., Faralli, S., Marras, M. and Stilo, G. (eds.) Bias and Social Aspects in Search and Recommendation. Series: Communications in computer and information science (1245). Springer, pp. 79-94. ISBN 9783030524852 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52485-2_9)

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Castells, Pablo (2020) Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR Perspective. In: 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2020, pp. 175-190. ISBN 9783030454388 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_12)

2019

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2019) Information Retrieval Models for Contact Recommendation in Social Networks. In: 1st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, 14–18 Apr 2019, pp. 148-163. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_10)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo and López, Esther (2019) A Simple Multi-armed Nearest-neighbor Bandit for Interactive Recommendation. In: RecSys '19: Thirteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019, pp. 358-362. ISBN 9781450362436 (doi: 10.1145/3298689.3347040)

2018

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2018) Enhancing structural diversity in social networks by recommending weak ties. In: 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2-7 October 2018, pp. 233-241. ISBN 9781450359016 (doi: 10.1145/3240323.3240371)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo (2018) Structural novelty and diversity in link prediction. In: Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18. ACM, pp. 1347-1351. ISBN 9781450356404 (doi: 10.1145/3184558.3191576)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2018) Contact recommendations in social networks. In: Berkovsky, S., Cantador, I. and Tikk, D. (eds.) Collaborative Recommendations. World Scientific, pp. 519-569. ISBN 9789813275362 (doi: 10.1142/9789813275355_0016)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo (2018) Recommending Contacts in Social Networks Using Information Retrieval Models. In: CERI '18: 5th Spanish Conference in Information Retrieval, Zaragoza, Spain, 26-27 June 2018, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781450365437 (doi: 10.1145/3230599.3230619)

This list was generated on Sat Jun 14 17:02:15 2025 BST.
Number of items: 24.

Articles

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2020) Effective contact recommendation in social networks by adaptation of information retrieval models. Information Processing and Management, 57(5), 102285. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102285)

Book Sections

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2020) Beyond accuracy in link prediction. In: Boratto, L., Faralli, S., Marras, M. and Stilo, G. (eds.) Bias and Social Aspects in Search and Recommendation. Series: Communications in computer and information science (1245). Springer, pp. 79-94. ISBN 9783030524852 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52485-2_9)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo (2018) Structural novelty and diversity in link prediction. In: Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18. ACM, pp. 1347-1351. ISBN 9781450356404 (doi: 10.1145/3184558.3191576)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2018) Contact recommendations in social networks. In: Berkovsky, S., Cantador, I. and Tikk, D. (eds.) Collaborative Recommendations. World Scientific, pp. 519-569. ISBN 9789813275362 (doi: 10.1142/9789813275355_0016)

Research Reports or Papers

McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 (2023) Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers. Project Report. University of Glasgow, UK.

Conference or Workshop Item

Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) University of Glasgow at the FinLLM Challenge Task: Adapting Llama for Financial News Abstractive Summarization. Joint Workshop of the 8th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), Jeju, Korea, 3 Aug 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) Comparing the Impact of Financial Knowledge Graphs from Financial Reports and Wikidata in Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.

Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yeyin, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Diversification-Enhancing Contrastive Learning. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Droukas, Nikolaos and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Droukas, Nikolaos, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2022) On Transaction-Based Metrics as a Proxy for Profitability of Financial Asset Recommendations. 3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services, Seattle, WA, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022.

Conference Proceedings

Chen, Chung-Chi, Lee, Yongjae, Lopez-Lira, Alejandro, Choi, Chanyeol, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 (2025) Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Lever, Jake ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939 (2025) Accelerating Cross-Encoders in Biomedical Entity Linking. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 24th BioNLP Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 1 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2025) Evaluating Knowledge Graph Sources for Non-Personalized Financial Asset Recommendation: 10K Reports vs. Wikidata. In: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Takayanagi, Takehiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2025) Are Generative AI Agents Effective Personalized Financial Advisors? In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Sánchez, Pablo, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Bellogin, Alejandro (2024) Improving Novelty and Diversity of Nearest-Neighbors Recommendation by Exploiting Dissimilarities. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Takayanagi, Takehiro, Suzuki, Masahiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising. In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yejin, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae (2024) Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Mean-Variance Efficient Sampling. In: 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 14-17 November 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Richards, Edward and McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2023) FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 Mar 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2022) RELISON: A Framework for Link Recommendation in Social Networks. In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022, pp. 2992-3002. ISBN 9781450387323 (doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531730)

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Castells, Pablo (2020) Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR Perspective. In: 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2020, pp. 175-190. ISBN 9783030454388 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_12)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2019) Information Retrieval Models for Contact Recommendation in Social Networks. In: 1st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, 14–18 Apr 2019, pp. 148-163. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_10)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo and López, Esther (2019) A Simple Multi-armed Nearest-neighbor Bandit for Interactive Recommendation. In: RecSys '19: Thirteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019, pp. 358-362. ISBN 9781450362436 (doi: 10.1145/3298689.3347040)

Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo (2018) Enhancing structural diversity in social networks by recommending weak ties. In: 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2-7 October 2018, pp. 233-241. ISBN 9781450359016 (doi: 10.1145/3240323.3240371)

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo (2018) Recommending Contacts in Social Networks Using Information Retrieval Models. In: CERI '18: 5th Spanish Conference in Information Retrieval, Zaragoza, Spain, 26-27 June 2018, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781450365437 (doi: 10.1145/3230599.3230619)

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Research datasets

Jump to: 2024
Number of items: 1.

2024

Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Droukas, N. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. [Data Collection]

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