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softwaredoug • 11/20/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

A warning that RRF is often not Enough, as it can just drag a good solution down towards the worse solution :)

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/11/03/rrf-is-not-enough


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emschwartz • 11/20/2024

Ah, that's great! Thanks for sharing that.

I had actually implemented full text search + vector search using RRF but I kept it disabled by default because it wasn't meaningfully improving my results. This seems like a good hypothesis as to why.