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Walk me through how you would design a context-extensio...

A successful context-extension design requires a graduated schedule that moves beyond simple architectural changes. It is essential to incorporate document-contiguous packing and a diverse corpus that includes books, math, arXiv papers, legal filings, and long-form technical documentation. Relying solely on one domain, such as fiction, will result in a model that struggles with the structural dependencies found in technical or legal writing. Architectural adjustments, such as RoPE scaling, are necessary to handle the increased token capacity.

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