AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 9h ago6/10
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Why Retrying Fails: Context Contamination in LLM Agent Pipelines
Researchers introduce the Context-Contaminated Restart Model (CCRM) to formally analyze why LLM agents fail at higher rates when retrying tasks after errors, showing that failed attempts pollute the context window and increase subsequent error rates 7.1x. The model provides closed-form formulas for success probability, optimal pipeline depth allocation, and quantifies the exact benefit of clearing context before retry attempts.