AI Glossary Term

What does “Retrieval Precision” mean?

Definition

The proportion of retrieved items that are relevant to the user's query.

Related terms

Retrieval
Finding relevant documents or records from a knowledge source for a query.
Reranker
A model that reorders an initial set of retrieved results to put the most relevant items at the top.
Precision
The proportion of predicted positives that are actually correct.
Multi-Query Retrieval
A retrieval technique that rewrites the user query into several variants to improve recall.
RAG-Fusion
A retrieval method that generates multiple query variants, retrieves results for each, and fuses the rankings.
Intent Classification
Predicting the user's purpose from a text query to route it correctly.

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