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pith:2EHLVTSH

pith:2025:2EHLVTSH6JCHMCYQN6W2KJZYRH

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Unable to Forget: Proactive Interference Reveals Working Memory Limits in LLMs Beyond Context Length

Chupei Wang (University of Virginia), Jiaqiu Vince Sun (New York University)

arxiv:2506.08184 v3 · 2025-06-09 · cs.CL · cs.AI · q-bio.NC

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:46:22.804162Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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d10ebace47f244760b106fada5273889cc0c2e5b225bd9b29899815fb450baaf

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arxiv: 2506.08184 · arxiv_version: 2506.08184v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08184 · pith_short_12: 2EHLVTSH6JCH · pith_short_16: 2EHLVTSH6JCHMCYQ · pith_short_8: 2EHLVTSH

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2EHLVTSH6JCHMCYQN6W2KJZYRH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d10ebace47f244760b106fada5273889cc0c2e5b225bd9b29899815fb450baaf

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T19:49:11Z",
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