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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational12 October 2026

Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?

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arXiv:2610.13948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. We used the Wikipedia Game to test language models on an analogous information retrieval task. In the game, players must reach a target article using only article links. We compared sentence embedding models and LLMs across five Wikipedia languages and five academic-literature datasets. We construct very large local graphs of Wikipedia pages and
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