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tableformer.rs

1//! TableFormer: table-structure recovery via docling-ibm-models, exported to
2//! ONNX by `scripts/install/export_tableformer.py`. The image encoder + tag-transformer
3//! encoder run once to a memory tensor; the decoder is then stepped
4//! autoregressively to emit an OTSL structure-token sequence (the same model
5//! docling runs). See docs/PDF_CONFORMANCE.md.
6
7use crate::pdfium_backend::TextCell;
8// The ONNX-free half (preprocessing, structure corrections, bbox bookkeeping,
9// span merge, OTSL→grid) lives in tf_core so the browser build (#157 stage 3)
10// runs the same logic; this file owns the three `ort` sessions and the
11// owned-value KV-cache fast path.
12use crate::tf_core::{
13    argmax, build_table_cells, correct, merge_spans, preprocess_input, BboxBook, TableCell, END,
14    MAX_STEPS, START, UCEL,
15};
16use image::RgbImage;
17use ort::session::Session;
18use ort::value::{DynValue, Tensor};
19
20const SIDE: usize = crate::tf_core::SIDE as usize;
21const EMBED_DIM: usize = crate::tf_core::EMBED_DIM;
22/// Decoder geometry, fixed by the exported TableModel04_rs graph: the cached
23/// decoder threads a `[N_LAYERS, past, 1, EMBED_DIM]` per-layer state cache.
24const N_LAYERS: usize = 6;
25
26/// Resolve the encoder / decoder / bbox files exactly as [`TableFormer::load`]
27/// will (shared with `model_inventory`, so diagnostics can never drift from
28/// what actually loads). Explicit `DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_*` overrides win; the
29/// decoder otherwise picks by preference — INT8 variants first unless
30/// `DOCLING_RS_FP32` opts out, and within a precision the true-KV-cache
31/// export (`decoder_kv*`, one token per step, O(past) step cost) ranks ahead
32/// of the legacy layer-output-cache graph it matches byte-for-byte (91/91
33/// snapshot corpus exact with either; the KV graph re-measured ~13–17% faster
34/// warm, so speed wins the default and the legacy file stays as the smaller
35/// fallback). `decoder_kv` ranks ABOVE `decoder_int8`: the #97 hoisted fp32
36/// KV graph is faster than the quantized legacy graph on every machine
37/// measured, and it is byte-exact (its own int8 variant is not produced — see
38/// quantize_models.py).
39pub fn resolved_paths() -> (String, String, String) {
40    let enc = std::env::var("DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_ENCODER")
41        .unwrap_or_else(|_| crate::resolve_asset("models/tableformer/encoder.onnx"));
42    let dec = std::env::var("DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_DECODER").unwrap_or_else(|_| {
43        let candidates: &[&str] = if crate::prefer_fp32() {
44            &[
45                "models/tableformer/decoder_kv.onnx",
46                "models/tableformer/decoder.onnx",
47            ]
48        } else {
49            &[
50                "models/tableformer/decoder_kv_int8.onnx",
51                "models/tableformer/decoder_kv.onnx",
52                "models/tableformer/decoder_int8.onnx",
53                "models/tableformer/decoder.onnx",
54            ]
55        };
56        candidates
57            .iter()
58            .map(|p| crate::resolve_asset(p))
59            .find(|p| std::path::Path::new(p).exists())
60            .unwrap_or_else(|| "models/tableformer/decoder.onnx".to_string())
61    });
62    let bbx = std::env::var("DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_BBOX")
63        .unwrap_or_else(|_| crate::resolve_asset("models/tableformer/bbox.onnx"));
64    (enc, dec, bbx)
65}
66
67pub struct TableFormer {
68    encoder: Session,
69    decoder: Session,
70    bbox: Session,
71    /// Which decoder graph flavour is loaded, detected from the session's
72    /// input names (so an explicit `DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_DECODER` override
73    /// works with any of them).
74    style: DecoderStyle,
75}
76
77/// The three decoder-graph generations the loop supports.
78#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
79enum DecoderStyle {
80    /// `decoder.onnx`: layer-output cache; feeds the full `tags` prefix and a
81    /// single `cache` every step.
82    Legacy,
83    /// The pre-#97 `decoder_kv.onnx`: one tag per step, `cache_k`/`cache_v`,
84    /// with the stacked `cross_k`/`cross_v` re-split inside every step.
85    KvStacked,
86    /// The #97 `decoder_kv.onnx`: one tag per step, and the constant cross
87    /// tensors arrive as 2×`N_LAYERS` per-layer inputs (`cross_kt_i` already
88    /// transposed for q·Kᵀ, `cross_v_i`), computed once per table by the
89    /// encoder — the step graph does no work proportional to their size.
90    KvHoisted,
91}
92
93/// KV-cache geometry fixed by the `decoder_kv.onnx` export
94/// (`[N_LAYERS, 1, KV_HEADS, past, KV_HEAD_DIM]`, `KV_HEADS × KV_HEAD_DIM = EMBED_DIM`).
95const KV_HEADS: usize = 8;
96const KV_HEAD_DIM: usize = 64;
97
98/// The autoregressive decode state: `a` is the legacy layer-output cache, or
99/// `cache_k` for the KV graph; `b` is `cache_v` (KV graph only). `None` = first
100/// step (the zero-`past` empties are allocated per table by [`TableFormer::empty_cache`]).
101#[derive(Default)]
102struct DecodeCache {
103    a: Option<DynValue>,
104    b: Option<DynValue>,
105}
106
107/// Zero-`past` first-step cache tensors: `(cache, None)` for the legacy graph,
108/// `(cache_k, Some(cache_v))` for the KV graph.
109type EmptyCache = (Tensor<f32>, Option<Tensor<f32>>);
110
111/// Encoder outputs that drive the cached decode loop: the per-layer cross-attention
112/// K/V (projected from the image memory once, constant across decode steps) and
113/// `enc_out` for the bbox decoder. Kept as owned `ort` values so each decode step
114/// (and the bbox run) borrows them directly — no per-step extract/copy/re-wrap.
115struct EncodeOut {
116    ck: DynValue,
117    cv: DynValue,
118    eo: DynValue,
119    /// `KvHoisted` only: per-layer `[cross_kt_0..N, cross_v_0..N]`, index-aligned
120    /// with the decoder's input names, borrowed by every decode step.
121    per_layer: Vec<(String, DynValue)>,
122}
123
124impl TableFormer {
125    /// Load the exported encoder/decoder/bbox ONNX graphs (env overrides, else
126    /// `models/tableformer/{encoder,decoder,bbox}.onnx`). Returns `None` if any is
127    /// absent, so the pipeline falls back to geometric reconstruction.
128    pub fn load() -> Option<Self> {
129        Self::load_with(crate::intra_threads())
130    }
131
132    /// Like [`load`](Self::load) but with an explicit intra-op thread count, so a
133    /// parallel page-worker pool can run each table model on fewer threads (the
134    /// throughput comes from running pages concurrently, not from one fat model).
135    ///
136    /// See [`resolved_paths`] for the encoder/decoder/bbox file selection.
137    pub fn load_with(intra: usize) -> Option<Self> {
138        // (resolution shared with the model inventory — see resolved_paths)
139        let (enc, dec, bbx) = resolved_paths();
140        if crate::timing::enabled() {
141            eprintln!("docling-pdf: tableformer decoder: {dec}");
142        }
143        if [&enc, &dec, &bbx]
144            .iter()
145            .any(|p| !std::path::Path::new(p).exists())
146        {
147            // The geometric fallback is a supported, intentional configuration
148            // (docling has no ML table-structure equivalent baked in either), so
149            // this stays a single quiet stderr note rather than an error — but it
150            // fires every process (not per-worker) so a CWD-relative default that
151            // silently misses its files (a very easy mistake for anything not run
152            // from the repo root, e.g. an embedding app) is at least visible once.
153            warn_missing_once(&enc, &dec, &bbx);
154            return None;
155        }
156        // The decoder's KV-cache grows by one entry every autoregressive step, so
157        // its input shapes differ on every `run()` call. ONNX Runtime's memory
158        // pattern optimizer assumes stable shapes to plan buffer reuse; disabling
159        // it for this session avoids repeatedly re-validating/re-touching that
160        // plan (and the external-weights file) on each step.
161        let build = |path: &str, mem_pattern: bool| -> Result<Session, String> {
162            let builder = Session::builder()
163                .map_err(|e| e.to_string())?
164                .with_intra_threads(intra)
165                .map_err(|e| e.to_string())?
166                .with_memory_pattern(mem_pattern)
167                .map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
168            crate::ep::apply(builder)?
169                .commit_from_file(path)
170                .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer load {path}: {e}"))
171        };
172        match (build(&enc, true), build(&dec, false), build(&bbx, true)) {
173            (Ok(encoder), Ok(decoder), Ok(bbox)) => {
174                let has = |n: &str| decoder.inputs().iter().any(|i| i.name() == n);
175                let style = if has("cross_kt_0") {
176                    DecoderStyle::KvHoisted
177                } else if has("cache_k") {
178                    DecoderStyle::KvStacked
179                } else {
180                    DecoderStyle::Legacy
181                };
182                if style == DecoderStyle::KvHoisted
183                    && !encoder.outputs().iter().any(|o| o.name() == "cross_kt_0")
184                {
185                    eprintln!(
186                        "docling-pdf: tableformer decoder needs per-layer cross tensors \
187                         (cross_kt_*) the encoder doesn't emit — re-download or re-export \
188                         the model set (scripts/install/export_tableformer.py); \
189                         falling back to geometric tables"
190                    );
191                    return None;
192                }
193                Some(Self {
194                    encoder,
195                    decoder,
196                    bbox,
197                    style,
198                })
199            }
200            _ => None,
201        }
202    }
203
204    /// Run the image encoder and capture what the cached decoder loop needs: each
205    /// decoder layer's cross-attention K/V (projected from the image memory once,
206    /// shape `[N_LAYERS,1,H,S,head_dim]`) and `enc_out` for the bbox decoder.
207    fn encode(&mut self, img: &RgbImage) -> Result<EncodeOut, String> {
208        let input = preprocess(img)?;
209        let mut enc_out = self
210            .encoder
211            .run(ort::inputs!["image" => input])
212            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: encode: {e}"))?;
213        let mut per_layer = Vec::new();
214        if self.style == DecoderStyle::KvHoisted {
215            for prefix in ["cross_kt_", "cross_v_"] {
216                for i in 0.. {
217                    let name = format!("{prefix}{i}");
218                    match enc_out.remove(&name) {
219                        Some(v) => per_layer.push((name, v)),
220                        None => break,
221                    }
222                }
223            }
224            if per_layer.is_empty() {
225                return Err("tableformer: encoder emitted no cross_kt_* outputs".into());
226            }
227        }
228        let mut grab = |name: &str| -> Result<DynValue, String> {
229            enc_out
230                .remove(name)
231                .ok_or_else(|| format!("tableformer: encoder output {name} missing"))
232        };
233        Ok(EncodeOut {
234            ck: grab("cross_k")?,
235            cv: grab("cross_v")?,
236            eo: grab("enc_out")?,
237            per_layer,
238        })
239    }
240
241    /// One doubly-cached decode step: feed the current `tags`, the constant cross
242    /// K/V, and the growing self-attention `cache`; return the raw argmax tag and
243    /// the last token's hidden state, advancing the cache. The cache stays an owned
244    /// `ort` value — the previous step's `out_cache` output is fed back directly,
245    /// never extracted or copied (it grows every step, so per-step copies were
246    /// O(steps²) float traffic). `empty_cache` is the zero-`past` value used on the
247    /// first step (ort's array constructors reject a 0-length dim, so it is
248    /// allocated through the session allocator by the caller).
249    fn decode_step(
250        &mut self,
251        tags: &[i64],
252        enc: &EncodeOut,
253        cache: &mut DecodeCache,
254        empty: &EmptyCache,
255    ) -> Result<(i64, Vec<f32>), String> {
256        crate::timing::timed("tf.decode_step", || {
257            self.decode_step_inner(tags, enc, cache, empty)
258        })
259    }
260
261    fn decode_step_inner(
262        &mut self,
263        tags: &[i64],
264        enc: &EncodeOut,
265        cache: &mut DecodeCache,
266        empty: &EmptyCache,
267    ) -> Result<(i64, Vec<f32>), String> {
268        let mut dout = match self.style {
269            DecoderStyle::KvHoisted => {
270                // #97 graph: one tag; the constant per-layer cross tensors are
271                // borrowed views — the step pays nothing proportional to them.
272                let last = *tags.last().expect("decode starts from <start>");
273                let tag_t = Tensor::from_array(([1usize, 1usize], vec![last]))
274                    .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: tag: {e}"))?;
275                let mut inputs: Vec<(
276                    std::borrow::Cow<'_, str>,
277                    ort::session::SessionInputValue<'_>,
278                )> = Vec::with_capacity(3 + enc.per_layer.len());
279                inputs.push(("tag".into(), tag_t.into()));
280                match (cache.a.as_ref(), cache.b.as_ref()) {
281                    (Some(k), Some(v)) => {
282                        inputs.push(("cache_k".into(), k.into()));
283                        inputs.push(("cache_v".into(), v.into()));
284                    }
285                    _ => {
286                        inputs.push(("cache_k".into(), (&empty.0).into()));
287                        inputs.push((
288                            "cache_v".into(),
289                            empty
290                                .1
291                                .as_ref()
292                                .expect("kv empty cache has both halves")
293                                .into(),
294                        ));
295                    }
296                }
297                for (name, v) in &enc.per_layer {
298                    inputs.push((name.as_str().into(), v.into()));
299                }
300                self.decoder.run(inputs)
301            }
302            DecoderStyle::KvStacked => {
303                // Pre-#97 KV graph: feed only the newly emitted tag; the projected
304                // K/V for the whole prefix live in cache_k/cache_v and are fed
305                // back as-is.
306                let last = *tags.last().expect("decode starts from <start>");
307                let tag_t = Tensor::from_array(([1usize, 1usize], vec![last]))
308                    .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: tag: {e}"))?;
309                match (cache.a.as_ref(), cache.b.as_ref()) {
310                    (Some(k), Some(v)) => self.decoder.run(ort::inputs![
311                        "tag" => tag_t, "cross_k" => &enc.ck, "cross_v" => &enc.cv,
312                        "cache_k" => k, "cache_v" => v]),
313                    _ => self.decoder.run(ort::inputs![
314                        "tag" => tag_t, "cross_k" => &enc.ck, "cross_v" => &enc.cv,
315                        "cache_k" => &empty.0,
316                        "cache_v" => empty.1.as_ref().expect("kv empty cache has both halves")]),
317                }
318            }
319            DecoderStyle::Legacy => {
320                let tags_t = Tensor::from_array(([tags.len(), 1usize], tags.to_vec()))
321                    .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: tags: {e}"))?;
322                match cache.a.as_ref() {
323                    None => self.decoder.run(ort::inputs![
324                        "tags" => tags_t, "cross_k" => &enc.ck, "cross_v" => &enc.cv,
325                        "cache" => &empty.0]),
326                    Some(c) => self.decoder.run(ort::inputs![
327                        "tags" => tags_t, "cross_k" => &enc.ck, "cross_v" => &enc.cv,
328                        "cache" => c]),
329                }
330            }
331        }
332        .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: decode: {e}"))?;
333        let (_, logits) = dout["logits"]
334            .try_extract_tensor::<f32>()
335            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: logits: {e}"))?;
336        let raw = argmax(logits) as i64;
337        let (_, hidden) = dout["hidden"]
338            .try_extract_tensor::<f32>()
339            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: hidden: {e}"))?;
340        let hidden = hidden.to_vec();
341        if self.style != DecoderStyle::Legacy {
342            cache.a = Some(
343                dout.remove("out_cache_k")
344                    .ok_or_else(|| "tableformer: out_cache_k missing".to_string())?,
345            );
346            cache.b = Some(
347                dout.remove("out_cache_v")
348                    .ok_or_else(|| "tableformer: out_cache_v missing".to_string())?,
349            );
350        } else {
351            cache.a = Some(
352                dout.remove("out_cache")
353                    .ok_or_else(|| "tableformer: decoder output out_cache missing".to_string())?,
354            );
355        }
356        Ok((raw, hidden))
357    }
358
359    /// The zero-`past` first-step cache(s), allocated through the session
360    /// allocator (ort's array constructors reject a 0-length dim; the C API does
361    /// allow it).
362    fn empty_cache(&self) -> Result<EmptyCache, String> {
363        let alloc = self.decoder.allocator();
364        if self.style != DecoderStyle::Legacy {
365            let mk = || {
366                Tensor::<f32>::new(alloc, [N_LAYERS, 1, KV_HEADS, 0usize, KV_HEAD_DIM])
367                    .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: empty kv cache: {e}"))
368            };
369            Ok((mk()?, Some(mk()?)))
370        } else {
371            let c = Tensor::<f32>::new(alloc, [N_LAYERS, 0usize, 1, EMBED_DIM])
372                .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: empty cache: {e}"))?;
373            Ok((c, None))
374        }
375    }
376
377    /// Predict the OTSL structure-token sequence for a table-region image.
378    pub fn predict_otsl(&mut self, img: &RgbImage) -> Result<Vec<i64>, String> {
379        let enc = self.encode(img)?;
380        // Structure corrections live in tf_core::correct (shared with the wasm
381        // path); docling's line_num is never incremented, so xcel→lcel fires on
382        // every row.
383        let mut tags: Vec<i64> = vec![START];
384        let mut out: Vec<i64> = Vec::new();
385        let mut prev_ucel = false;
386        let mut cache = DecodeCache::default();
387        let empty = self.empty_cache()?;
388        while out.len() < MAX_STEPS {
389            let (raw, _hidden) = self.decode_step(&tags, &enc, &mut cache, &empty)?;
390            let tag = correct(raw, prev_ucel);
391            if tag == END {
392                break;
393            }
394            out.push(tag);
395            tags.push(tag);
396            prev_ucel = tag == UCEL;
397        }
398        Ok(out)
399    }
400
401    /// Full structure prediction: OTSL grid cells with per-cell boxes (in the 448
402    /// image, normalized cxcywh). Collects per-cell decoder hidden states using
403    /// docling's exact bbox bookkeeping (skip-after-row-break, first-lcel of a
404    /// horizontal span), runs the bbox decoder, merges span boxes, then lays the
405    /// cells onto the OTSL grid with row/col spans.
406    pub fn predict_table_structure(&mut self, img: &RgbImage) -> Result<Vec<TableCell>, String> {
407        let enc = self.encode(img)?;
408
409        // The autoregressive loop's bbox bookkeeping lives in tf_core::BboxBook
410        // (shared with the wasm path); this loop only steps the decoder.
411        let mut book = BboxBook::new();
412        let mut cache = DecodeCache::default();
413        let empty = self.empty_cache()?;
414        while book.otsl.len() < MAX_STEPS {
415            let (raw, hidden) = self.decode_step(&book.tags, &enc, &mut cache, &empty)?;
416            if !book.step(raw, &hidden) {
417                break;
418            }
419        }
420        if book.n == 0 {
421            return Ok(Vec::new());
422        }
423        let tag_h = Tensor::from_array(([book.n, EMBED_DIM], std::mem::take(&mut book.hiddens)))
424            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: tag_h: {e}"))?;
425        let bout = self
426            .bbox
427            .run(ort::inputs!["enc_out" => &enc.eo, "tag_h" => tag_h])
428            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: bbox: {e}"))?;
429        let (_, raw) = bout["boxes"]
430            .try_extract_tensor::<f32>()
431            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: boxes: {e}"))?;
432        let boxes: Vec<[f32; 4]> = raw
433            .chunks_exact(4)
434            .map(|c| [c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]])
435            .collect();
436        // Per-cell class logits [n, 3] → argmax (docling's `outputs_class`).
437        let (_, craw) = bout["classes"]
438            .try_extract_tensor::<f32>()
439            .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: classes: {e}"))?;
440        let classes: Vec<i64> = craw.chunks_exact(3).map(|c| argmax(c) as i64).collect();
441        let (merged, merged_classes) = merge_spans(&boxes, &classes, &book.merge);
442        Ok(build_table_cells(&book.otsl, &merged, &merged_classes))
443    }
444
445    /// Predict a table region's Markdown grid: crop the region (docling's
446    /// page→1024px box-average then bbox crop), run the structure model, then
447    /// match the page's word cells into the predicted cells with docling's
448    /// matching post-processor ([`crate::tf_match`]) and expand spans into a
449    /// dense `rows × cols` grid. `region` is `(l, t, r, b)` in page points
450    /// (top-left). Returns `None` if no structure is predicted.
451    pub fn predict_table_rows(
452        &mut self,
453        page_image: &RgbImage,
454        region: [f32; 4],
455        words: &[TextCell],
456    ) -> Option<Vec<Vec<String>>> {
457        // page → 1024px height (cv2.INTER_AREA), then crop the table bbox.
458        // docling's coordinate chain, rounding included: the cluster bbox is
459        // rounded to integer page points *first* (`round(cluster.bbox.l) *
460        // scale`, banker's rounding), scaled by 2 (its table-structure page
461        // scale), then by `1024 / <2x page-image height>`, and the crop indices
462        // round again. Rounding after scaling instead shifts some crops by a
463        // pixel — enough to change TableFormer's cell boxes on tall tables
464        // (redp5110's TOC).
465        let sf = 1024.0 / page_image.height() as f32;
466        let pw = (page_image.width() as f32 * sf) as u32;
467        let page1024 = crate::timing::timed("tableformer.inter_area", || {
468            crate::resample::inter_area(page_image, pw, 1024)
469        });
470        let k = 2.0 * 1024.0 / page_image.height() as f64;
471        let px = |v: f32| (v as f64).round_ties_even() * k;
472        let x = (px(region[0]).round_ties_even()).max(0.0) as u32;
473        let y = (px(region[1]).round_ties_even()).max(0.0) as u32;
474        let x2 = (px(region[2]).round_ties_even() as u32).min(page1024.width());
475        let y2 = (px(region[3]).round_ties_even() as u32).min(page1024.height());
476        if x2 <= x || y2 <= y {
477            return None;
478        }
479        let crop = image::imageops::crop_imm(&page1024, x, y, x2 - x, y2 - y).to_image();
480        let cells = crate::timing::timed("tableformer.structure", || {
481            self.predict_table_structure(&crop)
482        })
483        .ok()?;
484        if cells.is_empty() {
485            return None;
486        }
487        // The ort-free tail (word matching + grid assembly) is shared with the
488        // browser path in tf_core.
489        crate::tf_core::table_rows(&cells, region, words)
490    }
491}
492
493/// Note once per process that TableFormer's ONNX graphs weren't found, so tables
494/// fall back to geometric reconstruction. The default paths are relative
495/// (`models/tableformer/*.onnx`), which only resolves when the process's current
496/// directory happens to be the repo root — a very easy miss for anything else
497/// (an embedding app, a binding invoked from a different working directory, …),
498/// and previously failed with no signal at all.
499fn warn_missing_once(enc: &str, dec: &str, bbx: &str) {
500    static WARNED: std::sync::Once = std::sync::Once::new();
501    WARNED.call_once(|| {
502        eprintln!(
503            "docling.rs: TableFormer models not found (checked {enc}, {dec}, {bbx}); \
504             tables will use geometric reconstruction instead of ML table-structure \
505             recognition. Set DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_ENCODER / DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_DECODER \
506             / DOCLING_TABLEFORMER_BBOX to enable it (see README.md)."
507        );
508    });
509}
510
511/// docling's preprocessing: bilinear (cv2.INTER_LINEAR) resize the crop to 448²,
512/// normalize `(x/255 − mean)/std`, laid out as (C, W, H) — docling transposes
513/// (2,1,0), so width is the major spatial axis. The page→1024px box-average
514/// (cv2.INTER_AREA) is the caller's job.
515fn preprocess(img: &RgbImage) -> Result<Tensor<f32>, String> {
516    Tensor::from_array(([1usize, 3, SIDE, SIDE], preprocess_input(img)))
517        .map_err(|e| format!("tableformer: input: {e}"))
518}