@GergelyOrosz: I’m starting to realize just how important it is to understand context sizes, context rot, context compression & simila…
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Gergely Orosz highlights the importance of understanding context sizes, rot, and compression in AI models to explain why models forget parts of large inputs.
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I’m starting to realize just how important it is to understand context sizes, context rot, context compression & similar behaviors to understand why these models often fall short
Eg why it is that you give it a large block of stuff and the model “forgets” about parts of it etc
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