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Paper”Investigation on context engineering of Dayu ModelEstablish Context Engineering As a formal discipline, far beyond rapid engineering, it provides a unified, systematic framework for designing, optimizing and managing information guiding large language models (LLMS). Here is an overview of its main contributions and framework:
What is context engineering?
Context Engineering Defined as the science and engineering that organizes, assembles and optimizes all forms of context to maximize understanding, reasoning, adaptability and real-world performance. Instead of treating the context as a static string (the premise of timely engineering), context engineering treats it as a dynamic, structured component component, i.e. through explicit functions, usually under intense resource and building constraints, through explicit functions.
Context Engineering Taxonomy
This paper breaks down the context engineering into:
1. Basic Components
one. Context search and power generation
- Including the promotion of engineering, intrinsic learning (zero/minority, business chain, thought tree, thought graph), external knowledge retrieval (e.g., generation of search authorizations, knowledge graphs), and dynamic assembly of context elements1.
- Highlight technologies such as clear frameworks, dynamic template components and modular search architectures.
b. Context processing
- Solve long sequence processing (using Mamba, Longnet, Flashingtention), context self-performing (iterative feedback, self-evaluation), and integration of multi-modal and structured information (visual, audio, graph, graph, table).
- Strategies include attention sparseness, memory compression, and intrinsic learning meta-optimization.
c. Context Management
- Related to memory hierarchy and storage architecture (short-term context windows, long-term memory, external databases), memory paging, context compression (autoencoder, repetitive compression), and scalable management of multi-transform or multi-proxy settings.
2. System implementation
one. Search Authorized Generation (RAG)
- Modular, proxy and graphically enhanced rag architecture integrates external knowledge and supports dynamics, sometimes multi-agent retrieval pipelines.
- Enable real-time knowledge updates and complex inference on structured databases/graphs.
b. Memory system
- Persistence and hierarchical storage are implemented, thus enabling vertical learning and knowledge recollection of the agent (e.g., commemoration, memory bank, external vector database).
- Key to scaling, multi-steering conversations, personalized assistants and simulation agents.
c. Tool Integration Reasoning
- LLM combines language reasoning with world-based capabilities through function calls or environment interaction using external tools (API, search engines, code execution).
- Enable new fields (mathematics, programming, network interaction, scientific research).
d. Multi-agent system
- Coordination between multiple LLMs (agents) through standardized protocols, orchestration and context sharing – this is critical for complex, collaborative problem-solving and distributed AI applications.
Key insights and research gaps
- Understanding – Agent asymmetryLLM with advanced context engineering can understand very complex multi-faceted contexts, but it is still difficult to produce output that matches this complexity or length.
- Integration and modularity: Optimal performance comes from a modular architecture combining multiple technologies (retrieval, memory, tool use).
- Evaluation Limits: Current evaluation metrics/benchmarks (e.g. BLEU, Rouge) are often unable to capture the composition, multi-step and collaborative behavior of advanced context engineering implementations. New benchmarks and dynamics are needed, overall evaluation paradigms.
- Open research questions: Theoretical basis, effective scaling (especially computationally), cross-patterned and structured context integration, realistic deployment, security, consistency and ethical issues remain open research challenges.
Application and impact
Context engineering supports powerful domain adaptive AI:
- Long document/questions
- Personalized digital assistant and memory authorized agent
- Science, medicine and technology problem solving
- Multi-agent collaboration in business, education and research
The direction of the future
- Unified Theory: Developing a framework for mathematics and information theory.
- Scaling and efficiency: Pay attention to innovations in mechanisms and memory management.
- Multimodal integration: Seamless coordination of text, visual, audio and structured data.
- Strong, safe and ethical deployment: Ensure reliability, transparency and fairness in actual systems.
Anyway: Context engineering is becoming a key discipline guiding the next generation of LLM-based intelligent systems, shifting the focus from creative timely writing to rigorous science of information optimization, system design and context-driven AI.
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Michal Sutter is a data science professional with a master’s degree in data science from the University of Padua. With a solid foundation in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data engineering, Michal excels in transforming complex data sets into actionable insights.
