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Why I stopped using semantic embeddings for tool selection and switched back to BM25 [D]

Reddit r/MachineLearning · 4d ago

The author shares their experience switching from semantic embeddings to BM25 for tool selection in agents, finding that BM25 achieves 81% top-1 accuracy vs. 64% for embeddings on a corpus of 200 query-tool pairs, because tool descriptions are short and keyword-driven rather than semantically rich like documents.

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