RAG, Fine-Tuning & ContextChroma (Kelly Hong, Anton Troynikov, Jeff Huber)

Chroma publishes Context Rot technical report

Context Rot technical report published — across 18 models, performance degraded unevenly as input length grew, even on simple tasks

Why it matters

The report that made context rot an industry term

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

Officialtrychroma.comhttps://www.trychroma.com/research/context-rot

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