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-This repository is currently under heavy development - if you have suggestions on the API or use-cases you'd like to be covered, please open an [issue](https://github.com/pytorch/ao/issues)
+This repository is currently under active development - if you have suggestions on the API or use-cases you'd like to be covered, please open an [issue](https://github.com/pytorch/ao/issues)
 
 ## Introduction
 `torchao` is a PyTorch library for quantization and sparsity.