Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)(turbopuffer.com)

53 points by _peregrine_ 207 days ago | 1 comment

armcat 202 days ago |

But this is not intrinsic to BM25 itself - this is an impact of auxiliary optimization strategies like MaxScore and WAND. A more correct title for this would be "Why query optimization strategies may yield faster search with more query terms".

armcat 202 days ago |

But this is not intrinsic to BM25 itself - this is an impact of auxiliary optimization strategies like MaxScore and WAND. A more correct title for this would be "Why query optimization strategies may yield faster search with more query terms".