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lost in the middle: a standalone construct

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Natural language processing

language models use information at the start or end of a long input better than information placed in the middle.

In natural language processing, lost in the middle refers to language models use information at the start or end of a long input better than information placed in the middle. This meaning comes from Liu (2024) in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[1]

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References

Liu, N. F., Lin, K., Hewitt, J., Paranjape, A., Bevilacqua, M., Petroni, F., & Liang, P. (2024). Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 12, 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00638

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