What a Word Limit Removes: Length Constraints Look Free, Costly or Helpful Depending on the Span They Bind, the Scorer That Reads the Answer and the Items Chosen, and Why Compliance Looks Orthogonal to Accuracy in Only One Kind of Design

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). What a Word Limit Removes: Length Constraints Look Free, Costly or Helpful Depending on the Span They Bind, the Scorer That Reads the Answer and the Items Chosen, and Why Compliance Looks Orthogonal to Accuracy in Only One Kind of Design [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23628985

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@misc{lor1362026,
  title        = {What a Word Limit Removes: Length Constraints Look Free, Costly or Helpful Depending on the Span They Bind, the Scorer That Reads the Answer and the Items Chosen, and Why Compliance Looks Orthogonal to Accuracy in Only One Kind of Design},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23628985},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/136},
  keywords     = {length constraints, instruction following, conciseness, chain-of-thought compression, verbosity bias, LLM-as-a-judge, evaluation methodology, measurement validity},
  note         = {LOR-00136}
}

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