Extensive context has become the norm as Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in long-horizon tasks. The concern that increasing context length degrades model capabilities, known as context rot, has become a central issue for these applications.
As large language models (LLMs) grow more capable, they are increasingly deployed in context-rich settings where task inputs are often accompanied by long, partially irrelevant context. In a controlled setting, we find that state-of-the-art models often appear robust to task-irrelevant context at the aggregate level: prepending it to benchmark questions causes little change in overall accuracy.
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