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Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises) | Better HN
Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)
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armcat
2mo ago
But this is not intrinsic to BM25 itself - this is an impact of auxiliary optimization strategies like MaxScore and WAND. A more correct title for this would be "Why query optimization strategies may yield faster search with more query terms".
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