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2026-07-23
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artificial-intelligence
Hybrid Retrieval Under the Microscope: BM25 vs MiniCOIL on MedQuAD
A controlled experiment comparing hybrid retrieval pipelines using BM25 versus miniCOIL on the MedQuAD dataset with EmbeddingGemma and Qdrant shows that miniCOIL, a sparse neural retrieval model, impr…