Task

First-Stage Ranking

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/first-stage-ranking/

Producing an initial ranked ordering of items before later-stage reranking or fusion.

Also called

Use this when the first stage produces an ordered list, not merely an unordered candidate set.

First-Stage Ranking is not Candidate Retrieval. First-stage ranking orders items; candidate retrieval may only select a candidate set.