The context window is the maximum amount of tokenized input (and often output) a model can condition on in one forward pass.
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Context Window
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The context window is the maximum amount of tokenized input (and often output) a model can condition on in one forward pass.
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It is how much text the model can “see at once” when answering.
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- NIST AI Risk Management Framework — risk vocabulary context for AI systems
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