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AI & Machine Learning · Intermediate

BM25

Best Matching 25: a standard lexical ranking function based on term frequency and inverse document frequency.

Definition

BM25 scores documents by how often query terms appear, adjusted for term rarity and document length. It is the default ranking in Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and many search engines.

Exam tip

BM25 is the lexical half of most hybrid search implementations.

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