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effective length

The context length at which a model's benchmark accuracy actually holds up, often far shorter than its advertised maximum window size.

also written as effective context length

Related terms
NoLiMaA long-context benchmark that removes lexical overlap between questions and answers, measuring how far model accuracy falls as input length grows past a short baseline.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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