Why it matters
Hybrid outperforms pure vector or keyword. Standard modern RAG.
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The architecture
Parallel: vector + BM25 search.
Fuse: RRF (reciprocal rank fusion).
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How it works end to end
Vector: dense embeddings.
BM25: sparse lexical.
RRF: sum 1/(k + rank) per doc.
Take top of fused list.