context window
The amount of text a model can consider at once.
What context window does not show
A page that exceeds what a retriever will pass along is truncated silently, and the part that survives is not necessarily the part you would have chosen.
Where context window comes up on this site
- Text-to-HTML ratio: does it matter, and how to check itA model's context window is fixed, so a page that spends most of its tokens on wrapper either crowds out the content, gets truncated, or costs more per question, and an agent comparing ten sources pays that ten times.
Definitions that name context window
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How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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Questions about context window
What is context window?
The amount of text a model can consider at once.
What does context window not show or guarantee?
A page that exceeds what a retriever will pass along is truncated silently, and the part that survives is not necessarily the part you would have chosen.
Which area of the glossary does context window belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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