Beyond Ctrl+F: New Test Shows Language Models Struggle with True Long-Text Understanding

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Overview

• A new benchmark called NoLiMa for evaluating language models on long-context tasks
• Tests models' ability to find and use information beyond exact text matching
• Evaluates reasoning, summarization, and inference over long documents
• Reveals limitations in current evaluation methods for long-context models
• Demonstrates gaps between reported and actual model capabilities

Plain English Explanation

Long-context language models are getting bigger and claiming to handle more text, but we've been testing them wrong. Most current tests just ask models to find exact quotes in long documents - like usi...

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