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In a long prompt, where is key information most likely to be missed by a language model?

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  1. In the middle
  2. At the very beginning
  3. At the very end

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References

  1. Liu et al., Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (arXiv 2307.03172) arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172 Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. Liu et al., Lost in the Middle (full paper PDF, Figure 1) arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03172 Checked 2026-10-10.

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