#information-retrieval

#information-retrieval

The biggest change isn't that other tools have vanished. It's that ChatGPT has become the new front door to information. Within months of its introduction on Nov. 30, 2022, ChatGPT had 100 million weekly users. By late 2025, that figure had grown to 800 million. That makes it one of the most widely used consumer technologies on the planet. Surveys show that this use isn't just curiosity - it reflects a real change in behavior.

Gary Illyes emphasized that he did not confirm that Google uses MUVERA, stating only that they might have something similar in production.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) with a custom knowledge base, enabling precise and contextually relevant responses from customers.

The evaluation demonstrates that utilizing the ANN index results in a significant drop in retrieval quality compared to brute-force search, impacting recall metrics.

The high-skewed language distribution of documents and queries leads to significant language bias in data and models, impacting the performance of information retrieval systems.

Traditional keyword matching in information retrieval fails to understand user intent, which leads to irrelevant results and limits the diversity of responses, requiring query alterations to be effective.