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 :page_with_curl: Citation
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-If you find LibAUC useful in your work, please acknowledge our library or cite the following paper:
+If you find LibAUC useful in your work, please acknowledge our library and cite the following paper:
 ```
 @inproceedings{yuan2021robust,
 	title={Large-scale Robust Deep AUC Maximization: A New Surrogate Loss and Empirical Studies on Medical Image Classification},