Answer the Patient: what a reranker changes, measured

The reranker peaked at 350-character chunks, achieving MRR 1.00 compared to 0.90 from the vector-only stage—a +0.10 improvement on the optimal chunk size. However, across all five answerable questions, the reranker’s rank movements were minimal; questions already ranked first by the bi-encoder…

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