LLM Context Windows vs. RAG: How Does Self-Attention Handle Irrelevant Information?
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Can irrelevant information in a long context make it harder for an LLM to identify and use the information needed to answer a question correctly? How does the Transformer's self-attention mechanism (Query, Key, and Value) influence how an LLM identifies and uses relevant information? Does adding mo…
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- 2026-10-28 03:14 · r/LocalLLM
LLM Context Windows vs. RAG: How Does Self-Attention Handle Irrelevant Information?