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Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers tested language models on the Wikipedia Game, where players navigate from one article to another using only links, comparing models across languages and datasets.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building information retrieval systems that must work across languages and domains without relying on external APIs.
- Watch out
- No model outperformed humans significantly. Performance and rankings varied across languages and topics, limiting generalization of results.
- llm
- language model
- retrieval
- embedding
- edge
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- Query Transformation Retrieval
- Tool Retrieval (Tool RAG)
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
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