Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

53 pointsposted a month ago
by _peregrine_

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armcat

25 days 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".