Where am I? Large Language Models Wandering between Semantics and Structures in Long Contexts (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluations of the open-domain question answering task focus solely on whether the model provides the correct answer. |
| Approach: | They propose to examine the phenomenon of discrepancies in abilities across two distinct tasks—QA and evidence selection—when performed simultaneously. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework and resources examines the ability of large language models to perform two distinct tasks simultaneously, from the perspective of task alignment. |
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