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Lost in Compaction: Evaluating Side-Constraint Loss under Context Compaction

arXiv:2608.11242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When the context window is under pressure, LLM systems compact prior context to continue ongoing tasks. We identify a class of user-issued instructions, Session Constraints (SCs), such as "do not delete any emails until I confirm," that are meant to constrain LLM's behavi