Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

Posted by _peregrine_ on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:03AM
from the turbopuffer.com dept.

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/bm25-latency-musings

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Re:Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other... by armcat on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:44AM (#46602450)

But this is not intrinsic to BM25 itself - this is an impact of auxiliary optimization strategies like MaxScore and WAND. A more correct title for this would be "Why query optimization strategies may yield faster search with more query terms".

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