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Recall@k Tuning in Production (ANSWERED)

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efSearch, nprobe, over-fetch for filters, offline benchmarks, and continuous monitoring of retrieval quality.

TL;DR — Quick Answer

Measure recall@k on a labeled query set while sweeping ANN parameters (efSearch, nprobe) and plotting latency. Pick the knee of the curve meeting minimum recall (e.g., 95% @10) under p99 latency budget. Monitor production proxy metrics — reranker scores, click-through, RAG answer faithfulness — and re-tune when embedding model or corpus shifts.

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How do you tune recall@k for vector search in production while meeting latency SLOs?

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