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Rank Fusion

Stories and analysis filed under Rank Fusion.

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Terminal screenshot of the Claude RAG CLI answering a question and citing local source files

Merge rankings with Reciprocal Rank Fusion

Combine BM25 and vector rankings with Reciprocal Rank Fusion, promoting chunks found by multiple retrievers without ever comparing their incompatible raw scores.