context overflow
/ˈkɒntekst ˌoʊvərfloʊ/
exceeding a model's context limit, which may cause a request to fail or content to be truncated, compacted, or omitted
context overflow in a sentence
“Context overflow forced the application to compact earlier turns before sending the request.”
Origin of context overflow
Latin contextus + Old English oferflowan to flow over
Related Words
semantic drift
subtle shifts in meaning of key terms through a conversation
overconfidence
expressing certainty beyond what the model's actual knowledge warrants
lost in the middle
the tendency to miss information buried midway through a long context
refusal
a model declining a request, sometimes wrongly, when it misreads intent as harmful
data contamination
test material leaking into training data, inflating benchmark scores
prompt leakage
a model disclosing confidential instructions or other non-public prompt content in its output