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-# Core
-[Core-ADLR] @mcore-reviewers/core-adlr
-megatron/core/ 
-
-[Core-NeMo] @mcore-reviewers/core-nemo
-megatron/core/ 
-
-^[Core-MLPerf] @mcore-reviewers/mlperf
-megatron/core/
-
-[GPT] @mcore-reviewers/gpt
-megatron/core/models/gpt/
-
-[Multimodal] @mcore-reviewers/multi-modal
-megatron/core/models/multimodal/
-
-[Hybrid-mamba] @mcore-reviewers/hybrid-mamba
-megatron/core/models/mamba/
-
-# Distributed Checkpointing
-[Distributed Checkpointing] @mcore-reviewers/dist-checkpointing
-megatron/core/dist_checkpointing/
-
-# Distributed Optimizer
-[Distributed Optimizer] @mcore-reviewers/dist-optimizer
-megatron/core/optimizer/distrib_optimizer/ 
-
-# Quantization and Inference (QAT)
-[Quantization and Inference (QAT)] @mcore-reviewers/quantization-and-inference
-megatron/core/inference/modelopt_support
-
-# Datasets
-[Datasets] @mcore-reviewers/datasets
-megatron/core/datasets/
-
-# Parallelism
-[Pipeline Parallelism] @mcore-reviewers/pipeline-parallelism
-megatron/core/pipeline_parallel/
-
-# Transformer
-[Transformer] @mcore-reviewers/core-adlr @mcore-reviewers/core-nemo
-megatron/core/transformer/
-
-[MoE-ADLR] @mcore-reviewers/moe-adlr
-megatron/core/transformer/moe/
-
-[MoE-Moe] @mcore-reviewers/moe-moe
-megatron/core/transformer/moe/
-
-# Inference
-[Inference] @mcore-reviewers/inference
-megatron/core/inference/
-
-# Parallel State
-[ParallelState] @mcore-reviewers/core-adlr @mcore-reviewers/core-nemo
-megatron/core/parallel_state.py
-
-[Post-Training] @mcore-reviewers/post-training
-megatron/core/post_training/
-megatron/post_training
-
-[CI][1] @mcore-reviewers/ci
-.gitlab/
-.github/
-.gitlab-ci.yml
-docker/
-tests/unit_tests/run_ci_test.sh
-tests/test_utils/python_scripts/
-tests/functional_tests/python_test_utils/
-tests/functional_tests/shell_test_utils/
-megatron/core/transformer/transformer_block.py
-megatron/core/transformer/transformer_layer.py
-
-^[Tests][1] @mcore-reviewers/ci
-tests/functional_tests/test_cases/
-tests/functional_tests/recipes/
-tests/unit_tests/
-
-[RL] @mcore-reviewers/rl
-megatron/rl/
-examples/rl/
-tests/unit_tests/test_rl_utils.py
-train_rl.py