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Mridula Sivanandan

Software Engineer II

About the author

Engineer at Elastic working on search. Big fan of learning, building, and sharing knowledge with the community. Outside of code, I enjoy reading and exploring new ideas.

Author’s articles

Balancing the scales: Making reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) smarter with weights

September 15, 2025

Balancing the scales: Making reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) smarter with weights

Exploring weighted reciprocal rank fusion​ (RRF) in Elasticsearch and how it works through practical examples.

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