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Long-horizon LLM agents accumulate growing conversation histories that eventually exceed the model's context window. Context compaction via LLM-based summarization keeps the conversation bounded, but summarization is inherently lossy and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Musa Cim , Burak Topcu , Chita Das , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir

Measuring the quality of a generated sequence against a set of references is a central problem in many learning frameworks, be it to compute a score, to assign a reward, or to perform discrimination. Despite great advances in model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Florian Schmidt , Thomas Hofmann

Recent progress in text-to-music generation has enabled models to synthesize high-quality musical segments, full compositions, and even respond to fine-grained control signals, e.g. chord progressions. State-of-the-art (SOTA) systems differ…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Or Tal , Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi

After their successful debut in natural language processing, Transformer architectures are now becoming the de-facto standard in many domains. An obstacle for their deployment over new modalities is the architectural configuration: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Noam Wies , Yoav Levine , Daniel Jannai , Amnon Shashua

Contention resolution addresses the problem of coordinating access to a shared channel. Time proceeds in slots, and a packet transmission can be made in any slot. A packet is successfully sent if no other packet is also transmitted during…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Michael A. Bender , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seth Gilbert , John Kuszmaul , Maxwell Young

Large language models (LLMs) excel at single-turn reasoning but often lose accuracy and coherence over extended, multi-turn interactions. Recent evaluations such as TurnBench highlight recurring failure modes-reasoning bias, task drift,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yiran Zhang , Jincheng Hu , Mark Dras , Usman Naseem

Token representation strategies within large-scale neural architectures often rely on contextually refined embeddings, yet conventional approaches seldom encode structured relationships explicitly within token interactions. Self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 James Blades , Frederick Somerfield , William Langley , Susan Everingham , Maurice Witherington

Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) play a critical role in preserving the rationale behind system design, yet their creation and maintenance are often neglected due to the associated authoring overhead. This paper investigates whether…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aviral Gupta , Rudra Dhar , Daniel Feitosa , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

Extended sequence generation often leads to degradation in contextual consistency due to the inability of conventional self-attention mechanisms to effectively retain long-range dependencies. Existing approaches, including memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jonathan Teel , Jocasta Cumberbatch , Raphael Benington , Quentin Baskerville

Recent language models exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet the influence of long-context capacity on reasoning remains underexplored. In this work, we hypothesize that current limitations in reasoning stem, in part, from insufficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Wang Yang , Zirui Liu , Hongye Jin , Qingyu Yin , Vipin Chaudhary , Xiaotian Han

Embedding models play a pivot role in modern NLP applications such as IR and RAG. While the context limit of LLMs has been pushed beyond 1 million tokens, embedding models are still confined to a narrow context window not exceeding 8k…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dawei Zhu , Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Yifan Song , Wenhao Wu , Furu Wei , Sujian Li

Building systems that can communicate with humans is a core problem in Artificial Intelligence. This work proposes a novel neural network architecture for response selection in an end-to-end multi-turn conversational dialogue setting. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Debanjan Chaudhuri , Agustinus Kristiadi , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Large language models handle single-turn generation well, but multi-turn interactions still require the model to reconstruct user intent and task state from an expanding token history because internal representations do not persist across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Vishwas Hegde , Vindhya Shigehalli

When transmitting information over a noisy channel, two approaches, dating back to Shannon's work, are common: assuming the channel errors are independent of the transmitted content and devising an error-correcting code, or assuming the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Ohad Elishco , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

When an LLM agent fails a multi-step tool-augmented task and retries, the failed attempt typically remains in its context window -- contaminating the next attempt and elevating the per-step error rate beyond the base level. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhanfu Yang

Agents built on large language models (LLMs) rely on a range of reliability techniques, including retry, majority voting, and self-consistency, that have been developed in parallel rather than within a common analytical framework. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hamed Omidvar , Vahideh Akhlaghi

Event-driven imagers and sensor arrays commonly employ asynchronous arbiter trees with a synchronous acknowledge to serialize requests. We present an analytical framework that models the root as an \(M/D/1\) queue with deterministic quantum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-06 Dominik S. Górni , Grzegorz W. Deptuch

In this paper, we consider contention resolution algorithms that are augmented with predictions about the network. We begin by studying the natural setup in which the algorithm is provided a distribution defined over the possible network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Seth Gilbert , Calvin Newport , Nitin Vaidya , Alex Weaver

We report a detailed autoethnographic case study of a single-subject who deliberately constructed and operated a multi-modal prompt-engineering system (System A) designed to externalize cognitive self-regulation onto a large language model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Z. Cheng , N. Song

AI applications increasingly depend on long-context inference, where LLMs consume substantial context to support stronger reasoning. Common examples include retrieval-augmented generation, agent memory layers, and multi-agent orchestration.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yinsicheng Jiang , Yeqi Huang , Liang Cheng , Cheng Deng , Xuan Sun , Luo Mai