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The Structural Attention Tax: How Retrieval Format Hijacks In-Context Learning Independent of Content

As of 17 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 31 of 31 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2606.11198.

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The Structural Attention Tax: How Retrieval Format Hijacks In-Context Learning Independent of Content Commonsense

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The Structural Attention Tax: How Retrieval Format Hijacks In-Context Learning Independent of Content Schema for in-context learning

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Pith citing papers

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The Announcement Carries the Cue: Markup, Boundaries, and the Notation of Pre-Training Corpora The Structural Attention Tax: How Retrieval Format Hijacks In-Context Learning Independent of Content

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