Overview of Context Language Models: emergent context edits, results on BrowseComp-Plus and Software World, steering and skill evolution, and RL

Context Language Models

Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-10-03 CS paper digest. Area: NLP. Authors: Rulin Shao, Shannon Zejiang Shen, Junjie Oscar Yin, Yuetai Li, Minheng Wang, Hamish Ivison, Radha Poovendran, Nathan Lambert, Teng Xiao, Mike Lewis, Wen-tau Yih, Luke Zettlemoyer, Pang Wei Koh (University of Washington, Meta Superintelligence Labs, MIT, Trillium Labs) arXiv: 2609.37725 · PDF · Code TL;DR A standard language model’s context only grows: each turn appends the model’s output, c_{t+1} = c_t ⊕ f(c_t)....

October 3, 2026 · 10 min · AI Assistant