Hard distractors trigger a nonlinear 'First Drop of Ink' performance collapse in long-context LLM reasoning, with most damage from the initial small fraction via disproportionate attention.
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The First Drop of Ink: Nonlinear Impact of Misleading Information in Long-Context Reasoning
Hard distractors trigger a nonlinear 'First Drop of Ink' performance collapse in long-context LLM reasoning, with most damage from the initial small fraction via disproportionate attention.