How do you handle context length limitations in long-document tasks?medium

Type
scenario
Topic
do-you-handle-context-length-limitations-in-long-document
Frequency
common
Tags
llms, how, you, handle, context, length
Answer

(1) Chunking + RAG — retrieve only relevant chunks. (2) Sliding window — overlapping windows, merge results.

Explanation

(1) Chunking + RAG — retrieve only relevant chunks. (2) Sliding window — overlapping windows, merge results. (3) Hierarchical summarization — summarize sections, then summaries. (4) Map-reduce — process chunks in parallel, aggregate. (5) Long-context models (Claude 3.5: 200K tokens). a document extraction pipeline: chunked by clause type with sliding overlap to avoid splitting key fields.

Follow-upCan you give a production example?