Lost but Not Only in the Middle - Positional Bias in Retrieval Augmented Generation.

@inproceedings{hutter-2025-lost, author = {Jan Hutter and David Rau and Maarten Marx and Jaap Kamps}, editor = {Claudia Hauff and Craig Macdonald and Dietmar Jannach and Gabriella Kazai and Franco Maria Nardini and Fabio Pinelli and Fabrizio Silvestri and Nicola Tonellotto}, title = {{Lost but Not Only in the Middle - Positional Bias in Retrieval Augmented Generation}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6-10, 2025, Proceedings, Part I}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {15572}, pages = {247--261}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2025}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88708-6_16}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88708-6_16} }