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package com.bakdata.dedupe.deduplication.offline;

/**
 * A full offline deduplication process, which ensures that no duplicate record is in the results.
 * Consider a dataset of records A, B, A' and A, A' being duplicates. The resulting dataset will be B, A", where A"
 * is a suitable representation of A and A'.
 * The actual implementation may use any means necessary to find duplicates, to ensure proper transitivity ((A,B) is
 * duplicate and (B,C) is duplicate implies that (A,C) is duplicate), and to give a resulting representation.
 *
 * @implSpec For offline algorithms, the general assumption is that they work stateless. Derivations need to be
 * documented.
 */
@FunctionalInterface
public interface OfflineDeduplication extends com.bakdata.dedupe.deduplication.Deduplication {
}