Question 510
An engineer applies RRF to scores normalized per request and calls it a rank-based algorithm. Following remediation, what safeguard BEST prevents a repeat of this specific failure?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Keep rank offset and truncation policies documented. This guards against recurrence because RRF operates on list positions and is distinct from raw score interpolation. The direct remediation is: Compute ranks within each result list before applying reciprocal-rank contributions.
Incorrect Answers
Avoid counting duplicates in one list twice. The current task instead requires this action: keep rank offset and truncation policies documented.
Choose exact versus linguistic search deliberately. The current task instead requires this action: keep rank offset and truncation policies documented.
Verify platform, dimension limit and client compatibility. The current task instead requires this action: keep rank offset and truncation policies documented.