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The Fusion Tax: A Diagnostic Analysis of When Hybrid Retrieval Hurts
Hybrid retrieval, which fuses a sparse lexical retriever with a dense neural one, is widely recommended in the software documentation surveyed in September 2026, usually with reciprocal rank fusion (RRF), on the strength of aggregate gains. We ask what fusion costs on individual queries, treating "d
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