Equation 12 · Part 1 · From BM25 to Agentic Retrieval: A History of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Symbol D
What this part means
D is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
D is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol D→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
where f(, D) is the frequency of query term in D , |D| is the document’s length, is the average document length in the collection, and and b are tuned constants controlling term-frequency saturation and length normalization respectively. The saturation term is the substantive advance…
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