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Signed-off-by: Jay Wang <[email protected]>

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 ## Citation
 
-To learn more about RecRec and social prompt engineering, check out our [research paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14447).
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 If you find RecRec useful, please consider citing it.
 
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