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For a class of interacting particle systems on a countable set, including the so-called linear systems, self-duality has proved to be a strong tool to show long-time convergence to an invariant state \(\nu_{\theta}\) from a constant initial state \(0\). This convergence was extended to a class of translation invariant random initial states through the Liggett-Spitzer coupling. Here the authors drop the assumption of translation invariance of the initial state. Instead, they assume only that there exists a global density \(\theta\) in a certain \(L^2\)-sense. They use the duality to carry out a comparison argument and show convergence to the same \(\nu_{\theta}\) as above. Some examples are also treated in more detail: the parabolic Anderson model, the mutually catalytic branching model, and the smoothing and potlatch processes. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0937.00066].