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     context: Dict[str, Any] = None
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-## 🤝 Contributing
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-We welcome contributions from the community! Symphony is designed to be an open, collaborative platform for advancing decentralized AI research.
-
-## 🤝 Contact
-
-If you are interested in our research, please contact tianyu@gradient.network. 
-
-
-## 📝 Citation
-
-If you use Symphony in your research or projects, please cite our paper:
-
-```bibtex
-@article{wang2024symphony,
-  title={Symphony: A Decentralized Multi-Agent Framework on Edge Devices with Beacon-Guided Task Routing and CoT Voting},
-  author={Wang, Ji and Chen, Kashing and Song, Xinyuan and Ai, Lynn and Yang, Eric and Zhang, Ke and Shi, Bill},
-  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2024.xxxx},
-  year={2024}
-}
-```
-
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-<div align="center">
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-**🚀 Ready to build the future of decentralized AI?**
-
-[Get Started](docs/getting-started.md) | [Join Our Community](https://discord.gg/symphony-ai) | [Follow Updates](https://twitter.com/symphony_ai)
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