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Hybrid Search Score Fusion in Production: Reciprocal Rank Fusion vs. Relative Score Fusion vs. Distribution-Based Score Fusion
Combining lexical search and dense vector retrieval is the standard architecture for modern enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Lexical algorithms like BM25 excel at exact token matching, code identifiers, and acronyms, while dense embeddings capture semantic context and paraphrased intent. However, merging these two disparate retrieval streams into a single, coherent ranking presents a fundamental mathematical challenge: lexical engines and vector indices operate in completely inc
1 minDemystifying Agent Skills: Empirical Study of 8,000+ Runs Shows Procedural Anchoring Beats Knowledge Injection
A multi-institution study from researchers at Princeton University, UC San Diego, and collaborating labs provides the first large-scale empirical analysis of how "skills" (modular instruction packages loaded at inference time) alter autonomous AI agent trajectories. Analyzing 8,135 experimental trials across diverse model architectures, benchmarks, and agent harnesses, the authors establish that skills improve task completion primarily by acting as procedural anchors rather than by injecting mis
1 minMinimum Bayes Risk Decoding: How Utility Consensus and Distributional Reranking Outperform Mode-Seeking in Large Language Models
Autoregressive large language models generate text by estimating conditional probability distributions over token sequences. In conventional inference pipelines, generating the final output sequence relies almost entirely on search algorithms designed to locate high-probability trajectories: greedy decoding, beam search, or stochastic sampling with temperature and top-p filtering. However, theoretical and empirical analyses demonstrate that the most probable sequence under a model's distributio
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