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 ## 📰 News
 
+📅 **2024.9.20:** Glad to announce that ESFT has been accepted to the **EMNLP 2024 Main Conference**! 
 📅 **2024.8.11:** We now release the **ESFT training code**! ✨ You can now try it with your own models and dataset!