WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Multimodal_LongContext/boundary-fade.md

# Boundary Fade — Guardrails and Fix Pattern

When multimodal long-context windows extend, **boundaries between modalities or section joins blur**.  
This causes models to conflate captions, transcripts, or visuals across neighboring regions, producing hybrid outputs or lost anchors.

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## Symptoms of Boundary Fade
- Captions merge into adjacent paragraphs, citations drift by a few lines.  
- Visual snippets spill across sections, losing clear demarcation.  
- ΔS across joins rises above 0.50, meaning semantic leakage.  
- Output shows partial traces of two anchors instead of one.  
- “Memory fade” across session restarts, context joins feel smeared.

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## Open these first
- Join stability and chunk fences: [Chunking Checklist](../MemoryLongContext/chunking-checklist.md)  
- Attention variance and entropy melt: [Entropy Collapse](../MemoryLongContext/entropy-collapse.md)  
- Context drift at long horizon: [Context Drift](../MemoryLongContext/context-drift.md)  
- Visual trace schema: [Cross-Modal Trace](./cross-modal-trace.md)  
- Session state guards: [Memory Coherence](../MemoryLongContext/memory-coherence.md)  

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## Fix in 60 seconds
1. **Measure joins**  
   - Compute ΔS across each modality join. Threshold ≤ 0.50.  
   - If higher, suspect boundary fade.

2. **Enforce fences**  
   - Insert `{section_start}` and `{section_end}` markers explicitly.  
   - Require `mod_type` label (e.g., `[image]`, `[caption]`, `[audio]`).

3. **Stabilize variance**  
   - Apply BBAM clamp when variance spikes near joins.  
   - Use BBCR bridge to redirect reasoning back to the intended anchor.

4. **Audit output**  
   - Each snippet must map to a single anchor ID.  
   - Reject blended outputs that merge two snippet IDs.

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## Acceptance Targets
- ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45 overall.  
- ΔS across joins ≤ 0.50.  
- λ_observe convergent across three paraphrases.  
- No section bleed: one snippet → one anchor only.  

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## Copy-paste prompt

```txt
You are running TXTOS + WFGY Problem Map.

Symptom: section or modality boundaries blur (“boundary fade”).

Protocol:
1. Compute ΔS across joins, enforce ≤ 0.50.
2. Insert section_start and section_end markers.
3. Require mod_type labels for all snippets.
4. Apply BBAM clamp, BBCR bridge if joins collapse.
5. Verify each snippet maps to exactly one anchor ID.
````

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