Implement Dagster multi-asset functions to model a single computation that produces multiple interdependent asset outputs

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Verified steps

  1. Decorate a function with @multi_asset(outs={...}) where each key in outs is an AssetOut defining a separate asset with its own key, description, and optional io_manager_key
  2. Inside the function body, yield Output(value, output_name=key) for each asset output, allowing Dagster to track each output as an independent asset with its own materialization record
  3. Define internal_asset_deps={output_key: {AssetKey('other_output_key')}} in @multi_asset to declare which outputs depend on which other outputs within the same function, enabling Dagster to build the correct asset graph
  4. Use can_subset=True if the multi-asset can be partially executed; implement the context.selected_output_names check to skip computation for non-selected outputs
  5. Assign different io_manager_key values to different outputs if each asset should be persisted to a different storage backend

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