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Evaluating the ability of large language models (LLMs) to process lengthy contexts is critical, especially for retrieving query-relevant information embedded within them. We introduce Sequential-NIAH, a benchmark specifically designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yifei Yu , Qian-Wen Zhang , Lingfeng Qiao , Di Yin , Fang Li , Jie Wang , Zengxi Chen , Suncong Zheng , Xiaolong Liang , Xing Sun

The Needle In A Haystack (NIAH) task has been widely used to evaluate the long-context question-answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its reliance on simple retrieval limits its effectiveness. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yidong Wang

Recent large language models (LLMs) support long contexts ranging from 128K to 1M tokens. A popular method for evaluating these capabilities is the needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) test, which involves retrieving a "needle" (relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ali Modarressi , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Ryan A. Rossi , Seunghyun Yoon , Hinrich Schütze

The needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) test, which examines the ability to retrieve a piece of information (the "needle") from long distractor texts (the "haystack"), has been widely adopted to evaluate long-context language models (LMs). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Cheng-Ping Hsieh , Simeng Sun , Samuel Kriman , Shantanu Acharya , Dima Rekesh , Fei Jia , Yang Zhang , Boris Ginsburg

The Needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) test is a general task used to assess language models' (LMs') abilities to recall particular information from long input context. This framework however does not provide a means of analyzing what factors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hui Dai , Dan Pechi , Xinyi Yang , Garvit Banga , Raghav Mantri

With the rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their evaluation has become increasingly comprehensive. However, understanding long multimodal content, as a foundational ability for real-world applications, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Weiyun Wang , Shuibo Zhang , Yiming Ren , Yuchen Duan , Tiantong Li , Shuo Liu , Mengkang Hu , Zhe Chen , Kaipeng Zhang , Lewei Lu , Xizhou Zhu , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Jifeng Dai , Wenqi Shao , Wenhai Wang

Modern long-context large language models (LLMs) perform well on synthetic "needle-in-a-haystack" (NIAH) benchmarks, but such tests overlook how noisy contexts arise from biased retrieval and agentic workflows. We argue that haystack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mufei Li , Dongqi Fu , Limei Wang , Si Zhang , Hanqing Zeng , Kaan Sancak , Ruizhong Qiu , Haoyu Wang , Xiaoxin He , Xavier Bresson , Yinglong Xia , Chonglin Sun , Pan Li

Processing structured tabular data, particularly large and lengthy tables, constitutes a fundamental yet challenging task for large language models (LLMs). However, existing long-context benchmarks like Needle-in-a-Haystack primarily focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Lanrui Wang , Mingyu Zheng , Hongyin Tang , Zheng Lin , Yanan Cao , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Weiping Wang

While recent large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable abilities in responding to queries in diverse languages, their ability to handle long multilingual contexts is unexplored. As such, a systematic evaluation of the long-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Amey Hengle , Prasoon Bajpai , Soham Dan , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become an essential approach for extending the reasoning and knowledge capacity of large language models (LLMs). While prior research has primarily focused on retrieval quality and prompting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiamin Chen , Yuchen Li , Xinyu Ma , Xinran Chen , Xiaokun Zhang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Chen Ma , Dawei Yin

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as an approach to augment large language models (LLMs) by reducing their reliance on static knowledge and improving answer factuality. RAG retrieves relevant context snippets and generates an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Juraj Vladika , Florian Matthes

Effectively incorporating external knowledge into Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing their capabilities and addressing real-world needs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers an effective method for achieving this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Kuan Li , Liwen Zhang , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Shuai Wang , Minhao Cheng

Transformers have a quadratic scaling of computational complexity with input size, which limits the input context window size of large language models (LLMs) in both training and inference. Meanwhile, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yimin Tang , Yurong Xu , Ning Yan , Masood Mortazavi

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) represents a major advancement in natural language processing (NLP), combining large language models (LLMs) with information retrieval systems to enhance factual grounding, accuracy, and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Agada Joseph Oche , Ademola Glory Folashade , Tirthankar Ghosal , Arpan Biswas

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights the critical importance of conducting thorough evaluations to discern their comparative advantages, limitations, and optimal use cases. Particularly important is assessing their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Daniel Machlab , Rick Battle

Current long-context benchmarks primarily focus on retrieval-based tests, requiring Large Language Models (LLMs) to locate specific information within extensive input contexts, such as the needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) benchmark. Long-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiang Liu , Peijie Dong , Xuming Hu , Xiaowen Chu

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks have shown significant promise in leveraging external knowledge to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, conventional RAG methods often retrieve documents based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Pouya Pezeshkpour , Estevam Hruschka

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) merges retrieval methods with deep learning advancements to address the static limitations of large language models (LLMs) by enabling the dynamic integration of up-to-date external information. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yizheng Huang , Jimmy Huang

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a crucial technique for enhancing the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external information. With the advent of LLMs that support increasingly longer context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Quinn Leng , Jacob Portes , Sam Havens , Matei Zaharia , Michael Carbin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled a wide range of applications through their powerful capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, as LLMs are trained on static corpora, they face difficulties in addressing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yongjie Wang , Yue Yu , Kaisong Song , Jun Lin , Zhiqi Shen
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