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multi-turn drift
Measured accuracy loss that occurs when the same task is spread across several conversational turns instead of arriving in one clean prompt, distinct from length-driven degradation alone.
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context poisoningA failed attempt or wrong answer left sitting in a conversation keeps competing for attention on every later turn, dragging output back toward the same mistake even after correction.view termcontext 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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