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Research on abstract text focuses on enabling computers to understand and generate summaries, analogies, and higher-level concepts from textual and visual data. Current efforts leverage transformer-based models and techniques like data augmentation (e.g., abstract-and-expand methods), information bottleneck principles, and differentiable logic programming to improve performance on tasks such as text summarization, analogical reasoning, and visual reasoning. These advancements are significant for improving natural language understanding, facilitating knowledge discovery in large datasets, and enabling more efficient and effective information retrieval and processing across various domains.