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		Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises) (turbopuffer.com)
		53 points by _peregrine_ 8 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

armcat 8 months 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".

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