Acknowledgments

This book is the result of a collective effort across course development, research practice, engineering reproduction, and manuscript preparation. The authors thank the students, collaborators, reviewers, and project contributors who helped test the examples, improve chapter structure, check terminology, and refine the practical cases throughout the manuscript.

We also acknowledge the open-source communities, dataset maintainers, framework developers, and documentation teams whose work is discussed or cited in the book. Their public releases, technical reports, source code, benchmarks, and data cards provide important evidence for the engineering methods summarized here.

The manuscript has benefited from AI-assisted copy editing and formatting support used under human author supervision. All substantive technical judgments, source selection, chapter organization, and final responsibility for the manuscript remain with the human authors and contributors listed in this book.

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