Information Abundance Paradox: long-context training can hurt short-task performance
DanielKhashabi · x · 2026-08-15
NLP researcher Daniel Khashabi describes what he calls the "Information Abundance Paradox": once training context length passes a certain threshold, performance on short-context tasks actually drops.
His explanation: in long-context training, relevant knowledge is readily available in the context, so the model has less incentive to internalize that knowledge into its parameters — hurting it when the knowledge isn't right there in the prompt.
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