Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:The performance of RPSA is compared with that of the state-of-the-art multi-modality analysis techniques: CCA, PLS, BLM, Semantic Matching (SM) (Rasiwasia et al, 2010), Semantic Correlation Matching (SCM) (Rasiwasia et al, 2010), Generalized Multi-view Marginal Fisher Analysis (GMMFA) (Sharma and Kumar, 2012) and Generalized Multi-view LDA (GMLDA) (Sharma and Kumar, 2012) in Table 6.
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