The "Lost in the Middle" Problem in RAG and How to Work Around It
Posted on Thu 22 October 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, RAG, LLM, context-window, retrieval, reranking
Why This Matters
You build a RAG pipeline. Retrieval works: the right chunk is definitely in the top results. You send everything to the LLM, and it still gives a wrong or incomplete answer, as if it never saw the one piece of text that contained the answer.
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