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Retrieval & Search

BM25

BM25 is a lexical ranking function that scores documents using query-term frequency, term rarity, and document-length normalization.

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An inverted index supplies matching documents and corpus statistics for each term. The formula rewards informative term matches while limiting the effect of repeated terms in long documents.

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RerankingHybrid SearchCosine SimilarityNearest Neighbor SearchEmbedding ModelParent Document Retrieval

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