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20202025
most citedLarge Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context

106 citations · 191 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2025

Evaluation of retrieval-based QA on QUEST-LOFT

Nathan Scales, Nathanael Schärli, Olivier Bousquet

Despite the popularity of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as a solution for grounded QA in both academia and industry, current RAG methods struggle with questions where the ne…

cs.CL2023★ 106 cited

Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context

Freda Shi, Xinyun Chen, Kanishka Misra +5

Large language models have achieved impressive performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, so far they have been evaluated primarily on benchmarks where all…

cs.CL2022★ 44 cited

Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them

Mirac Suzgun, Nathan Scales, Nathanael Schärli +8

BIG-Bench (Srivastava et al., 2022) is a diverse evaluation suite that focuses on tasks believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models. Language models have alre…

cs.CL2022★ 39 cited

Compositional Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models

Andrew Drozdov, Nathanael Schärli, Ekin Akyürek +5

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artifici…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

*-CFQ: Analyzing the Scalability of Machine Learning on a Compositional Task

Dmitry Tsarkov, Tibor Tihon, Nathan Scales +3

We present *-CFQ ("star-CFQ"): a suite of large-scale datasets of varying scope based on the CFQ semantic parsing benchmark, designed for principled investigation of the scalabilit…