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Search in Polecat, Part 3: Hybrid search and reciprocal rank fusion
Keyword search and vector search fail in different places, so a document both rank well beats either one's favourite. How Polecat 5.29 fuses the two rankings with RRF, why only the ranks are fused and never the scores, and why candidate depth has to exceed the limit.
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