Mar 31, 2026 information theory Shannon channel capacityThe Information-Theoretic Limits of Context WindowsThere are fundamental limits on how much information a fixed-width attention mechanism can extract from n tokens. Here's the math from Shannon's channel capacity to attention bounds.
Mar 31, 2026 rate-distortion context compression ShannonThe Rate-Distortion Theory of Context CompressionContext compaction is a lossy compression problem. Rate-distortion theory gives the theoretical lower bound on how much conversation history can be compressed.
