arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-06-28
The Verbose Context Problem in Medical Records
Shiva Kaul, Min-Gyu Kim, Anjum Khurshid, Sriram Vishwanath
The verbose context problem occurs when structured concepts have token-inefficient textual representations. This bottleneck is acute in population health: cohort-level analysis of longitudinal patient records requires reasoning over thousands of medically-coded events, often exce…