Relevance Score Boosting and Decay Functions
Qdrant 1.17 - Relevance Feedback & Search Latency Improvements - Qdrant

Qdrant 1.17 - Relevance Feedback & Search Latency Improvements - Qdrant

2/20/2026 · Abdon Pijpelink

What this post added

Introduced Relevance Feedback Query, a new method to improve search result quality by incorporating user feedback on result relevance. This feature uses context pairs of positive and negative examples to adjust the scoring function during retrieval, enhancing recall without retraining models. Also introduced Weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) to allow assigning weights to different rankers in hybrid search.

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