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by kkielhofner 600 days ago
> they're not a complete replacement for simpler methods like BM25

There are embedding approaches that balance "semantic understanding" with BM25-ish.

They're still pretty obscure outside of the information retrieval space but sparse embeddings[0] are the "most" widely used.

[0] - https://zilliz.com/learn/sparse-and-dense-embeddings