> they're not a complete replacement for simpler methods like BM25 There are embedding approaches that balance "semantic understanding" with BM25-ish. They're

> they're not a complete replacement for simpler methods like BM25 There are embedding approaches that balance "semantic understanding" with BM25-ish. They're still pretty obscure outside of the information retrieval space but sparse embeddings[0] are the "most" widely used. [0] - https://zilliz.com/learn/sparse-and-dense-embeddings https://zilliz.com/learn/sparse-and-dense-embeddings