Lost in the Middle: Find Your LLM's Context Dead Zone and Fix It Before the Call
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One result from the "Lost in the Middle" paper should change how you build RAG prompts. GPT-3.5-Turbo was given 20 retrieved documents with the answer placed in the middle of them, and it scored lower than when it got no documents at all. Answering from memory beat answering with the documents. Her…
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- 2026-10-23 02:21 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Lost in the Middle: Find Your LLM's Context Dead Zone and Fix It Before the Call