Context compaction
Replacing older conversation material with a shorter retained representation.
What Context compaction means
It extends long-running work while risking the loss of qualifications, provenance, and low-salience facts.
Related terms in Models and generation
How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
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Questions about Context compaction
What is Context compaction?
Replacing older conversation material with a shorter retained representation.
Which area of the glossary does Context compaction belong to?
Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
← Context caching · Model routing →
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