Pressure Testing GPT-4-128K With Long Context Recall
128K tokens of context is awesome - but what's performance like?
I wanted to find out so I did a ���needle in a haystack” analysis
Some expected (and unexpected) results
Here's what I found:
Findings:
* GPT-4’s recall performance started to degrade above 73K tokens
* Low recall performance was correlated when the fact to be recalled was placed between at 7%-50% document depth
* If the fact was at the beginning of the document, it was recalled regardless of context length
So what:
* No Guarantees - Your facts are not guaranteed to be retrieved. Don’t bake the assumption they will into your applications
* Less context = more accuracy - This is well know, but when possible reduce the amount of context you send to GPT-4 to increase its ability to recall
* Position matters - Also well know, but facts placed at the very beginning and 2nd half of the document seem to be recalled better
Overview of the process:
* Use Paul Graham essays as ‘background’ tokens. With 218 essays it’s easy to get up to 128K tokens
* Place a random statement within the document at various depths. Fact used: “The best thing to do in San Francisco is eat a sandwich and sit in Dolores Park on a sunny day.”
* Ask GPT-4 to answer this question only using the context provided
* Evaluate GPT-4s answer with another model (gpt-4 again) using @langchain evals
* Rinse and repeat for 15x document depths between 0% (top of document) and 100% (bottom of document) and 15x context lengths (1K Tokens > 128K Tokens)
Next Steps To Take This Further:
* Iterations of this analysis were evenly distributed, it’s been suggested that doing a sigmoid distribution would be better (it would tease out more nuanced at the start and end of the document)
* For rigor, one should do a key:value retrieval step. However for relatability I did a San Francisco line within PGs essays.
Notes:
* While I think this will be directionally correct, more testing is needed to get a firmer grip on GPT4s abilities
* Switching up prompt with vary results
* 2x tests were run at large context lengths to tease out more performance
* This test cost ~$200 for API calls (a single call at 128K input tokens costs $1.28)
* Thank you to @charles_irl for being a sounding board and providing great next steps
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Well, that was fast…
I just helped create the first jailbreak for ChatGPT-4 that gets around the content filters every time
credit to @vaibhavk97 for the idea, I just generalized it to make it work on ChatGPT
here's GPT-4 writing instructions on how to hack someone's computer