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    Language, speech & LLMs· 2023

    Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts

    Nelson F. Liu (first author) · 2023 · published 2024

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    DOI 10.1162/tacl_a_00638arXiv 2307.03172OpenAlex W4391876619

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    Exposed major positional retrieval weaknesses hidden by nominal context-window sizes.

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    First released
    2023 (from arXiv 2307.03172)
    Published
    2024
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    5,542 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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    0.346 · computed rank 490 · consensus 0.23, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.792 (2020s · language), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

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