Diagnosing and Mitigating Context Rot in Long-horizon Search

arXiv:2606.29718 · cs.IR, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-29

Updated: 2026-10-25

Terminology

• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Test-Time Scaling — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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