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Explaining Unexpected Model Performance

A language model was pre-trained exclusively on text segments with a maximum length of 4,096 tokens. During testing, it is tasked with summarizing a 5,000-token document and produces a reasonably coherent summary. A colleague is surprised by this result, believing the model should have failed completely since it never saw a document of this length during its training. Briefly explain the underlying principle that allows the model to handle this longer sequence.

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