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Gad, they sure like to say "BM25" over and over again. That's a near worthless approach to result ranking. Doing any halfway ok job requires much more tuned a
by throwaway81523 9mo ago
Gad, they sure like to say "BM25" over and over again. That's a near worthless approach to result ranking. Doing any halfway ok job requires much more tuned and/or more powerful approaches.
- throwaway7783 9mo agoCan you please elaborate why?
- cpursley 9mo agoIt's common to do a hybrid of BM25 with other fuzzy search or pgvector.
- storus 9mo agoBM25 is quite bad and needs to be retrained for each corpus anew. SPLADEv2 is much better and there are even better sparse embeddings these days.