Equation 12 · Part 1 · Naive, Graph, and Agentic: A Systems Comparison of RAG Architectures
Symbol R
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R is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…rank fusion, which Cormack and colleagues introduced and showed outperforming both individual rankers and a Condorcet-style combination, ignores raw scores entirely and combines rank positions across retrievers R with a smoothing constant k ,
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