Context Compression Is Not One Thing: Readable Symbolic Re-expression vs. Coherent Summary at Matched Budget

In three linesTelegraph English, a readable symbolic format, rewrites retrieved passages into structured entity-relation statements for context compression. On MuSiQue, TwoWiki, and HotpotQA, it outperforms three matched-budget baselines (deletion, truncation, sub-sampling) by 13–20 F1 points, and exceeds coherent prose summaries on the hardest dataset.

Summary generated by Claude — human-verified