Attention Basin: Why Contextual Position Matters in Large Language Models
Zihao Yi · Zhenqing Ling · Delong Zeng · Haohao Luo · Zhe Xu · WEI LIU · Jian Luan · Wanxia Cao · Ying Shen
摘要
The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is significantly sensitive to the contextual position of information in the input. To investigate the mechanism behind this positional bias, our extensive experiments reveal a consistent phenomenon we term the attention basin: when presented with a...