The Accuracy Booster: Demystifying Cross-Encoder Reranking
If you have built a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system, you have likely faced the “Lost in the Middle” problem. You ask your AI a question. It retrieves 10 documents. But the one document that actually contains the answer is buried at position #7. The LLM gets distracted by the noise in documents #1–6 and gives you a hallucinated answer. How…
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The Accuracy Booster: Demystifying Cross-Encoder Reranking
If you have built a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system, you have likely faced the “Lost in the Middle” problem. You ask your AI a question. It retrieves 10 documents. But the one document that actually contains the answer is buried at position #7. The LLM gets distracted by the noise…
