RAG, Fine-Tuning & ContextShijie Xia et al.
Diagnosing and Mitigating Context Rot in Long-horizon Search published
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/2606.29718Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week