Retrieval and search · MLD-0711
Maximum marginal relevance
Selecting items by balancing query relevance against redundancy with already selected items.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Retrieve diverse supporting passages.
Original caveat
The relevance-diversity tradeoff requires tuning.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Data · Retrieval · Inference · Evaluation.
Tags: ML · NLP · SLM · LLM · IR.
Aliases: MMR.
Related concepts
Original references
- Faiss documentation ↗ · Reference link
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks ↗ · Consulted
- Sentence Transformers documentation ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗