Google DeepMind has introduced a new benchmark called LOFT to evaluate the performance of long-context language models (LCLMs) across various tasks. The LOFT benchmark consists of six long-context task categories, including retrieval, multi-hop reasoning, and SQL. The study reveals that LCLMs can rival state-of-the-art retrieval and RAG systems but still face challenges in complex reasoning and compositional tasks. The evaluation includes real-world tasks requiring a million-token context and extends to multimodal retrieval involving text, vision, and audio. Additionally, LCLMs were tested on smaller-scale versions of these tasks, showing that prompting LLMs perform surprisingly well and generalize across settings. Models like Chinchilla and PaLM are highlighted for their potential in revolutionizing AI by eliminating the need for specialized systems.
[CL] Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? J Lee, A Chen, Z Dai, D Dua... [Google DeepMind] (2024) https://t.co/31IR2MfoBl - Long-context language models (LCLMs) like Chinchilla and PaLM have shown promise in revolutionizing AI by eliminating… https://t.co/Zi9gZUUTEt
Can long-context models replace retrievers, RAG & SQL? We evaluate them on smaller-scale versions of these tasks and compare them to specialized models in same settings. We found *prompting* LLM perform surprisingly well, generalizing across text, multimodal & other settings! https://t.co/1c15QaztDs
Ever wondered if long-context language models can also master image, video, and multimodal retrieval? 🌟 Dive into our latest work LOFT! We benchmarked various long-context language models on million-token level retrieval, RAG, and SQL tasks across text, vision, and audio 🚀 #AI… https://t.co/SSMI2csiCf
Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? Google DeepMind conducts a deep performance analysis of long-context LLMs on in-context retrieval and reasoning. They first present a benchmark with real-world tasks requiring 1M token context. Report… https://t.co/cL6m5w9kuL
Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? Google DeepMind reveals that long-context language models can rival specialized systems in areas like retrieval but struggle with complex reasoning. 📝https://t.co/b8M3huH2UQ 👨🏽💻https://t.co/UfLOaz0BGY https://t.co/NIjAkQwO5A
Google presents Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? Long-context LM: - Often rivals SotA retrieval and RAG systems - But still struggles with areas like compositional reasoning repo: https://t.co/bDV8OIEhmw abs: https://t.co/tgCv8fWDLI https://t.co/Mg4rOHig3h
Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? abs: https://t.co/8JcQqb0p5R code: https://t.co/ULIRQAAUdR New paper from Google DeepMind; Introduces the LOFT benchmark. LOFT consists of 6 long-context task categories spanning retrieval, multi-hop… https://t.co/Cfp1gbCebW