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arXiv cs.CLPaper9d ago

YANchor-4B: Effective Long-Horizon Reasoning in O(N) Time with O(1) Memory

The practical win here is throughput. Long-context reasoning models usually trap you between memory cost and quality loss; YANchor claims several-fold higher batched throughput than Transformers on the same hardware while matching or beating their reasoning performance on hard benchmarks like AIME. For builders working on complex multi-step reasoning or production agentic systems at scale, this is worth a prototype. The caveat: it's a 4B model and a single paper. Wait for independent reproduction and larger variants before betting your inference pipeline on it.

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arXiv cs.LGPaper24d ago

The Sirens' Song: When Proximal Background Context Overshadows Distant Evidence

Long-context LLMs have a real problem: they ignore distant information not because it's far away, but because nearby noise is louder. LYRA's solution is mechanically sound and shows gains across standard benchmarks. For builders using long-context models for retrieval-heavy tasks (RAG, document QA, multi-hop reasoning), this is a concrete win. The practical question is whether the improvement justifies reranking or other post-processing, or if you just need to be smarter about what goes in the context window.

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