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associative recall

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Definition

Looking up a value when you know its key, even if many other things sit in between.

The task of retrieving a value bound to a given key from earlier in a context, used as a stress test for long-context modeling architectures.

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    Echo: The Paper Arguing You Never Needed a KV Cache for Retrieval