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Mar 31, 2026 lost in the middle attention distribution prompt engineering RAG softmax attention

The 'Lost in the Middle' Problem: Why Your AI Ignores Information in the Center of Long Prompts

Research proved that LLMs attend strongly to the beginning and end of context but poorly to the middle. This is a mathematical property, not a bug.