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     \frametitle{Motivation}
     \begin{itemize}
         \item General ML decoding problem NP-complete \citereference{BMT78}
-        \item Iterative message–passing algorithms preferred in practice do not guarantee
+        \item Iterative message–passing algorithms popular in practice do not guarantee
             optimality when the graph contains cycles \citereference{KTP19}
         \item Standard message-passing algorithms difficult to analyze \citereference{FEL03}
     \end{itemize}