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While large language models (LLMs) are equipped with longer text input capabilities than before, they are struggling to seek correct information in long contexts. The "lost in the middle" problem challenges most LLMs, referring to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Junqing He , Kunhao Pan , Xiaoqun Dong , Zhuoyang Song , Yibo Liu , Qianguo Sun , Yuxin Liang , Hao Wang , Enming Zhang , Jiaxing Zhang

Large language models (LLMs), even when specifically trained to process long input contexts, struggle to capture relevant information located in the middle of their input. This phenomenon has been known as the lost-in-the-middle problem. In…

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to use information across long inputs effectively. Prior work has identified positional biases, such as the Lost in the Middle (LiM) effect, where models perform better when information appears at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Blerta Veseli , Julian Chibane , Mariya Toneva , Alexander Koller

LLMs have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in understanding tasks but continue to struggle with long-context comprehension, particularly with content located in the middle of extensive inputs. This limitation, known as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 James Begin , Namit Agrawal , Eshan Singh , Yicheng Fu , Sean O'Brien , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

The diminishing ability of large language models (LLMs) to effectively utilize long-range context-the "lost-in-the-middle" phenomenon-poses a significant challenge in retrieval-based LLM applications. To study the impact of this phenomenon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Mihir Gupte , Eshan Dixit , Muhammad Tayyab , Arun Adiththan

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

Large language models (LLMs) often fail to scale their performance on long-context tasks performance in line with the context lengths they support. This gap is commonly attributed to retrieval failures -- the models' inability to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yufeng Du , Minyang Tian , Srikanth Ronanki , Subendhu Rongali , Sravan Bodapati , Aram Galstyan , Azton Wells , Roy Schwartz , Eliu A Huerta , Hao Peng

LLMs can help humans working with long documents, but are known to hallucinate. Attribution can increase trust in LLM responses: The LLM provides evidence that supports its response, which enhances verifiability. Existing approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jan Buchmann , Xiao Liu , Iryna Gurevych

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) often degrades when crucial information is in the middle of a long context, a "lost-in-the-middle" phenomenon that mirrors the primacy and recency effects in human memory. We propose that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nikolaus Salvatore , Hao Wang , Qiong Zhang

Recent large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in handling long contexts, some exhibiting near-perfect recall on synthetic retrieval tasks. However, these evaluations have mainly focused on English text and involved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ameeta Agrawal , Andy Dang , Sina Bagheri Nezhad , Rhitabrat Pokharel , Russell Scheinberg

Limited by the context window size of Large Language Models(LLMs), handling various tasks with input tokens exceeding the upper limit has been challenging, whether it is a simple direct retrieval task or a complex multi-hop reasoning task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiaoju Ye , Zhichun Wang , Jingyuan Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in comprehending and analyzing lengthy sequential inputs, owing to their extensive context windows that allow processing millions of tokens in a single forward pass.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Peyman Hosseini , Ignacio Castro , Iacopo Ghinassi , Matthew Purver

We propose RecaLLM, a set of reasoning language models post-trained to make effective use of long-context information. In-context retrieval, which identifies relevant evidence from context, and reasoning are deeply intertwined: retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Kyle Whitecross , Negin Rahimi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are proficient at retrieving single facts from extended contexts, yet they struggle with tasks requiring the simultaneous retrieval of multiple facts, especially during generation. This paper identifies a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jinlin Wang , Suyuchen Wang , Ziwen Xia , Sirui Hong , Yun Zhu , Bang Liu , Chenglin Wu

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, more are being designed to handle long-context inputs. Despite this advancement, most of them still face challenges in accurately handling long-context tasks, often showing the "lost in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yijiong Yu , Yongfeng Huang , Zhixiao Qi , Zhe Zhou

While recent language models have the ability to take long contexts as input, relatively little is known about how well they use longer context. We analyze the performance of language models on two tasks that require identifying relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Nelson F. Liu , Kevin Lin , John Hewitt , Ashwin Paranjape , Michele Bevilacqua , Fabio Petroni , Percy Liang

The development of Long-Context Large Language Models (LLMs) has markedly advanced natural language processing by facilitating the process of textual data across long documents and multiple corpora. However, Long-Context LLMs still face two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jingyang Deng , Zhengyang Shen , Boyang Wang , Lixin Su , Suqi Cheng , Ying Nie , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin , Jinwen Ma

With the significant expansion of the context window in Large Language Models (LLMs), these models are theoretically capable of processing millions of tokens in a single pass. However, research indicates a significant gap between this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Nima Esmi , Maryam Nezhad-Moghaddam , Fatemeh Borhani , Asadollah Shahbahrami , Amin Daemdoost , Georgi Gaydadjiev

Despite significant advancements, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit blind spots that impair their ability to retrieve and process relevant contextual data effectively. We demonstrate that LLM performance in graph tasks with complexities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Wenlong Jiang , Xiaoling Zhai

While holding great promise for improving and facilitating healthcare, large language models (LLMs) struggle to produce up-to-date responses on evolving topics due to outdated knowledge or hallucination. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gongbo Zhang , Zihan Xu , Qiao Jin , Fangyi Chen , Yilu Fang , Yi Liu , Justin F. Rousseau , Ziyang Xu , Zhiyong Lu , Chunhua Weng , Yifan Peng
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