Leave No Document Behind: Benchmarking Long-Context LLMs with Extended Multi-Doc QA

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Main Authors: Wang, Minzheng, Chen, Longze, Fu, Cheng, Liao, Shengyi, Zhang, Xinghua, Wu, Bingli, Yu, Haiyang, Xu, Nan, Zhang, Lei, Luo, Run, Li, Yunshui, Yang, Min, Huang, Fei, Li, Yongbin
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author Wang, Minzheng
Chen, Longze
Fu, Cheng
Liao, Shengyi
Zhang, Xinghua
Wu, Bingli
Yu, Haiyang
Xu, Nan
Zhang, Lei
Luo, Run
Li, Yunshui
Yang, Min
Huang, Fei
Li, Yongbin
author_facet Wang, Minzheng
Chen, Longze
Fu, Cheng
Liao, Shengyi
Zhang, Xinghua
Wu, Bingli
Yu, Haiyang
Xu, Nan
Zhang, Lei
Luo, Run
Li, Yunshui
Yang, Min
Huang, Fei
Li, Yongbin
contents Long-context modeling capabilities have garnered widespread attention, leading to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with ultra-context windows. Meanwhile, benchmarks for evaluating long-context LLMs are gradually catching up. However, existing benchmarks employ irrelevant noise texts to artificially extend the length of test cases, diverging from the real-world scenarios of long-context applications. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel long-context benchmark, Loong, aligning with realistic scenarios through extended multi-document question answering (QA). Unlike typical document QA, in Loong's test cases, each document is relevant to the final answer, ignoring any document will lead to the failure of the answer. Furthermore, Loong introduces four types of tasks with a range of context lengths: Spotlight Locating, Comparison, Clustering, and Chain of Reasoning, to facilitate a more realistic and comprehensive evaluation of long-context understanding. Extensive experiments indicate that existing long-context language models still exhibit considerable potential for enhancement. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) achieves poor performance, demonstrating that Loong can reliably assess the model's long-context modeling capabilities.
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spellingShingle Leave No Document Behind: Benchmarking Long-Context LLMs with Extended Multi-Doc QA
Wang, Minzheng
Chen, Longze
Fu, Cheng
Liao, Shengyi
Zhang, Xinghua
Wu, Bingli
Yu, Haiyang
Xu, Nan
Zhang, Lei
Luo, Run
Li, Yunshui
Yang, Min
Huang, Fei
Li, Yongbin
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Long-context modeling capabilities have garnered widespread attention, leading to the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with ultra-context windows. Meanwhile, benchmarks for evaluating long-context LLMs are gradually catching up. However, existing benchmarks employ irrelevant noise texts to artificially extend the length of test cases, diverging from the real-world scenarios of long-context applications. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel long-context benchmark, Loong, aligning with realistic scenarios through extended multi-document question answering (QA). Unlike typical document QA, in Loong's test cases, each document is relevant to the final answer, ignoring any document will lead to the failure of the answer. Furthermore, Loong introduces four types of tasks with a range of context lengths: Spotlight Locating, Comparison, Clustering, and Chain of Reasoning, to facilitate a more realistic and comprehensive evaluation of long-context understanding. Extensive experiments indicate that existing long-context language models still exhibit considerable potential for enhancement. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) achieves poor performance, demonstrating that Loong can reliably assess the model's long-context modeling capabilities.
title Leave No Document Behind: Benchmarking Long-Context LLMs with Extended Multi-Doc QA
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17419