Modifying Alpha Coefficient in Hybrid Search
TLDR Narayan inquired about adjusting the alpha coefficient in hybrid searches on Typesense, Jason suggested creating a GitHub issue to track the future inclusion of this adjustment.
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Sep 22, 2023 (2 months ago)
Narayan
04:12 PMalpha coefficient to decide how the scores of keyword and vector search are combined or is it fixed like in the example in the docs:K = rank of document in keyword search
S = rank of document in semantic search
rank_fusion_score = 0.7 * K + 0.3 * S
Jason
04:20 PMJason
04:20 PMNarayan
04:20 PM
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