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by wtallis 1930 days ago
The first half of the abstract is more akin to declaring the data types and structures used, and the second half is mostly a very high level summary of the overall method and results. It's not supposed to be interpreted like code. It's just setting up the context you need to start interpreting the meat of the paper, and giving you a heads-up about what background topics to Google if anything in the abstract sounds unfamiliar.