Equation 18 · Part 1 · Embeddings and the Geometry of Similarity
Symbol k
What this part means
k 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
k 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 k→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Retrieval must therefore be measured on its own terms, against its own labelled relevance judgements, with rank-aware metrics — recall at k for whether the evidence is present at all, and a graded measure such as normalised discounted cumulative gain for whether it is ranked usefully. BEIR’s use of nDCG at 10 across heterogeneous domains is the standard reference for how to do this out of domain [ 20 ] . For embedding models…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [20] BEIR: A Heterogenous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models ↗
- [22] MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark ↗
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