}

  // cached so that this.multimapView().inverse() only computes inverse once
  private transient @Nullable ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V> multimapView;

  public ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V> asMultimap() {
    ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V> result = multimapView;
    return (result == null)
        ? (multimapView =
            new ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V>(new MapViewOfValuesAsSingletonSets(), size(), null))

  @LazyInit private transient @Nullable ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V> multimapView;

  /**
   * Returns a multimap view of the map.
   *
   * @since 14.0
   */
  public ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V> asMultimap() {
    if (isEmpty()) {
      return ImmutableSetMultimap.of();
    }
    ImmutableSetMultimap<K, V> result = multimapView;
    return (result == null)
        ? (multimapView =