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distractor sensitivity

A model's tendency to lose accuracy as irrelevant or off-task tokens accumulate in its context, even when the genuinely relevant information is still present.

Related terms
attention budgetThe fixed total of attention weight a model has to spend across a window, forced by softmax to sum to 1, so every added token draws share away from the others.view term->context rotMeasured accuracy decline as a model's input grows longer, even when the extra tokens are irrelevant, showing up well before the advertised context limit is reached.view term->
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jul 2026
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  • Claude Is a Math Problem (And the Context Window Is the Equation)The Claude context window is an equation, not a chat. Why failed attempts anchor the output, where measured degradation starts, and when to clear and re-derive.guides1 min
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