benwtrent commented on issue #12342: URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/12342#issuecomment-1594648943
> And then switch the score to scale in 10 as a breaking change. Or is condoning negative scores under any circumstances a non-starter? If you are utilizing hybrid search, negating WAND/MAX_SCORE will slow things down significantly. We should protect folks from shooting themselves in the foot. > but would add a little confusion. I agree, there will be confusion. What do you think @uschindler & @msokolov ? Being able to do non-normalized dot-product is an important aspect of recommendation engines and vector search as a whole. My imagination is too poor to come up with a better solution than adding a new similarity function that uses dot-product under the hood and scales differently. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lucene.apache.org
