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Is Your Reranker Earning Its Place? Test It Before You Pay for It
The semantic ranker only reorders the top 50 results. A with-and-without test on a labelled set shows which RAG queries it rescues and which it just slows.
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The semantic ranker only reorders the top 50 results. A with-and-without test on a labelled set shows which RAG queries it rescues and which it just slows.
Cross-encoder reranking typically improves RAG precision by 10-20%.
Cross encoders directly score query document pairs: Use an LLM to judge relevance: Using Cohere's specialized rerank API: 1. Retrieve more, re rank fewer :…