ByteDance Seed Paper Reveals Periodic Fluctuation in DeepSeek's Long-Context Performance

ByteDance's Seed team explains why DeepSeek's long-context performance is inconsistent: chunked KV compression introduces phase blind spots, causing retrieval accuracy to fluctuate with a 4-token periodicity depending on input position.

2026-10-08 ~ 2026-10-09 · 2 related posts

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