The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search — Jo Kristian Bergum, Hornet.dev
BM25 is experiencing a resurgence for agentic search applications.
“It's essentially a scoring function.”
Jo Kristian Bergum highlighted the renewed effectiveness of the BM25 scoring function for agentic search. This 30-year-old lexical scoring function is proving vital for advanced retrieval infrastructure, which could significantly impact the performance of AI-driven search systems.