arXiv AI By Shuyu Liu

What Does Context Compression Cost an Agent? Interaction Costs Unrevealed by Task-Completion Metrics

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arXiv:2608. 16370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task completion is the standard metric for evaluating context compression, yet it is incomplete: compression can increase an agent's interaction cost by forcing it to reacquire dropped state while leaving completion statistically unchanged.

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