RAG, Fine-Tuning & ContextNelson F. Liu et al. (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Samaya AI)Stanford UniversityUC Berkeley

Lost in the Middle published

Lost in the Middle published — a U-shaped position bias in which performance drops when the relevant document sits in the middle of the context

Why it matters

The first large-scale counterevidence to the assumption that you can simply put in a long context

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172

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