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This archive presents five working papers on context compression failure modes in large language models.
The central finding is the validity mirage: naive context compression can preserve surface-level answer correctness while silently substituting the governing hypothesis, causing a model to answer confidently about the wrong task. We develop a tropical semiring algebra (max-plus over \u211d ∪ {−∞}) for measuring context health under compression, and show that structurally guarded retention policies eliminate pivot drift where recency-based baselines fail completely.
Empirical validation spans five open-weight model architectures (Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral 7B v0.3, Gemma 2 9B, Phi-3 Medium 14B, Qwen 2.5 14B) across 11,400+ boundary instances and 4,200+ streaming trials, with additional testing against 13 real incident graphs (12 NTSB aviation investigations and the Knight Capital 2012 trading failure). A production MCP server implementation is available separately.
Included papers:

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Paper 00: Continuous Control and Structural Regularization in Multi-Agent Narrative Extraction
Paper 01: Absorbing States in Greedy Search
Paper 02: Streaming Oscillation Traps in Endogenous-Pivot Sequential Extraction
Paper 03: The Validity Mirage: Context Algebra for Endogenous Semantics under Memory Compression
Paper I: Tropical Algebra of Endogenous-Pivot Semantics

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Reproducible validation artifacts and benchmark outputs are included in the results/ directory. All papers are working paper first drafts distributed under CC-BY 4.0.

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