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      "Save a small set of representative product tasks and expected outcomes. Keep evaluation tasks out of any training or tuning, and choose quality and cost limits before running.",
      "Run the baseline and the proposed change on identical inputs. Keep other settings fixed and repeat paired runs to expose variation.",
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  "title": "RoboSimStudio: An Interactive Toolkit for Rapid Real2Sim of Robot Manipulation Tasks",
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