AI Research Circle [members and +1s]
Tuesday · 2026-01-13 · 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
We surveyed practical approaches to long-context LLMs including RoPE scaling, sparse attention, and state-space alternatives, then mapped the real engineering tradeoffs: when expanding context windows makes sense versus when retrieval-augmented generation still wins. The takeaway: accepting tokens isn't the same as using them well.
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