RAG, Fine-Tuning & ContextShijie Xia et al.

Diagnosing and Mitigating Context Rot in Long-horizon Search published

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Diagnosing and Mitigating Context Rot in Long-horizon Search published — diagnoses agents giving up early, before the context window is used up; 7 mitigation techniques improve results by 2.6–4.9%

Why it matters

Quantifies Context Rot in the setting of search agents, and also shows that a fundamental fix is hard

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29718

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