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Long Context Windows in LLMs are Deceptive (Lost in the Middle problem)🧐

Namee on March 20, 2024

It seems like OpenAI and Anthropic have been in a battle of context windows for the better part of a year. In May of 2023, Anthropic breathlessly...
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Matija Sosic

I agree that larger context is not a silver bullet. In you experience, in which use cases it really improves LLM performance?

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Namee

Great question!

I think the longer context window is actually more relevant for other kinds of workflows - for example, if you wanted to summarize or rewrite a very long piece of text requiring a context window that large.