LIFBench: Evaluating the Instruction Following Performance and Stability of Large Language Models in Long-Context Scenarios (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks rarely focus on instruction-following in long-context scenarios or stability on different inputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a scalable dataset to evaluate LLMs’ instruction-following capabilities and stability across long contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method evaluates LLMs’ instruction-following capabilities and stability across long contexts. |
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