@misc{gao2026firstdropink,
  title = {The First Drop of Ink: Nonlinear Impact of Distracting Information in Long-Context Reasoning},
  author = {Muhan Gao and Zih-Ching Chen and Kuan-Hao Huang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.10828},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.AI},
  note = {Version 2, August 20, 2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10828v2}
}