Re-ranking
A second scoring pass, usually a cross-encoder, that reorders the chunks retrieval returned before the generator sees them.
What Re-ranking means
A page can win retrieval and still be dropped here, which is why "we were retrieved" and "we were cited" are different claims.
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How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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What is Re-ranking?
A second scoring pass, usually a cross-encoder, that reorders the chunks retrieval returned before the generator sees them.
Which area of the glossary does Re-ranking belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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