Equation 15 · Part 1 · From BM25 to Agentic Retrieval: A History of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Symbol b
What this part means
tuned constants controlling term-frequency saturation and length normalization respectively.
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Where the article explains it
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.
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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 over a raw term-frequency-times-IDF score: a term’s contribution grows quickly at first and then flattens, so a document that happens to repeat a query…
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