Lost but Not Only in the Middle - Positional Bias in Retrieval Augmented Generation

Jan Hutter, David Rau, Maarten Marx, Jaap Kamps. Lost but Not Only in the Middle - Positional Bias in Retrieval Augmented Generation. In Claudia Hauff, Craig Macdonald, Dietmar Jannach, Gabriella Kazai, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabio Pinelli, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. Volume 15572 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 247-261, Springer, 2025. [doi]

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