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Approach: They propose a multivariate directed acyclic graph (mDAG) which generates the topological ordering of mDAg by equipping a generation model with a re-encoder to keep the deductive property but avoid the expensive enumeration of deductive methods.
Outcome: The proposed model performs well on the widely used benchmarks and solves multivariate operators on the CMWPA benchmark.

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