Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
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| author | Lee, Jinhyuk Chen, Anthony Dai, Zhuyun Dua, Dheeru Sachan, Devendra Singh Boratko, Michael Luan, Yi Arnold, Sébastien M. R. Perot, Vincent Dalmia, Siddharth Hu, Hexiang Lin, Xudong Pasupat, Panupong Amini, Aida Cole, Jeremy R. Riedel, Sebastian Naim, Iftekhar Chang, Ming-Wei Guu, Kelvin |
| author_facet | Lee, Jinhyuk Chen, Anthony Dai, Zhuyun Dua, Dheeru Sachan, Devendra Singh Boratko, Michael Luan, Yi Arnold, Sébastien M. R. Perot, Vincent Dalmia, Siddharth Hu, Hexiang Lin, Xudong Pasupat, Panupong Amini, Aida Cole, Jeremy R. Riedel, Sebastian Naim, Iftekhar Chang, Ming-Wei Guu, Kelvin |
| contents | Long-context language models (LCLMs) have the potential to revolutionize our approach to tasks traditionally reliant on external tools like retrieval systems or databases. Leveraging LCLMs' ability to natively ingest and process entire corpora of information offers numerous advantages. It enhances user-friendliness by eliminating the need for specialized knowledge of tools, provides robust end-to-end modeling that minimizes cascading errors in complex pipelines, and allows for the application of sophisticated prompting techniques across the entire system. To assess this paradigm shift, we introduce LOFT, a benchmark of real-world tasks requiring context up to millions of tokens designed to evaluate LCLMs' performance on in-context retrieval and reasoning. Our findings reveal LCLMs' surprising ability to rival state-of-the-art retrieval and RAG systems, despite never having been explicitly trained for these tasks. However, LCLMs still face challenges in areas like compositional reasoning that are required in SQL-like tasks. Notably, prompting strategies significantly influence performance, emphasizing the need for continued research as context lengths grow. Overall, LOFT provides a rigorous testing ground for LCLMs, showcasing their potential to supplant existing paradigms and tackle novel tasks as model capabilities scale. |
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| spellingShingle | Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? Lee, Jinhyuk Chen, Anthony Dai, Zhuyun Dua, Dheeru Sachan, Devendra Singh Boratko, Michael Luan, Yi Arnold, Sébastien M. R. Perot, Vincent Dalmia, Siddharth Hu, Hexiang Lin, Xudong Pasupat, Panupong Amini, Aida Cole, Jeremy R. Riedel, Sebastian Naim, Iftekhar Chang, Ming-Wei Guu, Kelvin Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval Long-context language models (LCLMs) have the potential to revolutionize our approach to tasks traditionally reliant on external tools like retrieval systems or databases. Leveraging LCLMs' ability to natively ingest and process entire corpora of information offers numerous advantages. It enhances user-friendliness by eliminating the need for specialized knowledge of tools, provides robust end-to-end modeling that minimizes cascading errors in complex pipelines, and allows for the application of sophisticated prompting techniques across the entire system. To assess this paradigm shift, we introduce LOFT, a benchmark of real-world tasks requiring context up to millions of tokens designed to evaluate LCLMs' performance on in-context retrieval and reasoning. Our findings reveal LCLMs' surprising ability to rival state-of-the-art retrieval and RAG systems, despite never having been explicitly trained for these tasks. However, LCLMs still face challenges in areas like compositional reasoning that are required in SQL-like tasks. Notably, prompting strategies significantly influence performance, emphasizing the need for continued research as context lengths grow. Overall, LOFT provides a rigorous testing ground for LCLMs, showcasing their potential to supplant existing paradigms and tackle novel tasks as model capabilities scale. |
| title | Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13121 |