Co-authored-by: Luis Cossío <luis.cossio@qdrant.com>
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Dylan Couzon
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co-authored by Luis Cossío
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_Available as of v1.11.0_
<a href=https://medium.com/plain-simple-software/distribution-based-score-fusion-dbsf-a-new-approach-to-vector-search-ranking-f87c37488b18 target="_blank">DBSF</a> keeps the raw scores from each query but normalizes their distributions before combining. For each retriever's returned set, it computes the mean $\mu$ and sample standard deviation $\sigma$, then linearly remaps every score using the 3-sigma extremes as endpoints:
<a href=https://medium.com/plain-simple-software/distribution-based-score-fusion-dbsf-a-new-approach-to-vector-search-ranking-f87c37488b18 target="_blank">DBSF</a> keeps the raw scores from each query but normalizes their distributions before combining. For each retriever's returned set, it computes the mean $\mu$ and sample standard deviation $\sigma$, then normalizes every score using the 3-sigma extremes as endpoints:
$$ \hat{s} = \frac{s - (\mu - 3\sigma)}{6\sigma} $$