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Understanding Score Calculation in Hybrid Search

TLDR Narayan questioned how scores in hybrid search are calculated, Kishore Nallan explained that the number of vectors fetched equals min(k, limit).

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Oct 04, 2023 (2 months ago)
Narayan
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Narayan
12:26 AM
Can someone explain how scores are calculated for hybrid search when I use different values for limit for the query and k for the vector search - does limit influence k in any way like set to min(k, limit) for any optimization? Or is limit is used for getting keyword search results and k is used for vector search results, followed by combining them and then finally taking the top limit results? I would assume that if I increase k say from 5 to 10 the results in the second option with k=10 should contain all the results in the first option with k=5. But I see otherwise. This happens in some cases in my very large dataset and not always and I have failed to create a minimal reproducible example.
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
11:59 AM
Yes min(k, limit) will be the actual number of vectors fetched