Boosting RAG Retrieval Quality with Cohere Rerank and Cross‑Encoder
After achieving high recall with hybrid Elasticsearch and vector search, the article shows how inserting a reranker—either Cohere's cloud API or a local Cross‑Encoder—compresses the top‑20 candidates to the most relevant three to five, dramatically improving answer accuracy, cutting token costs, and detailing a dual‑track implementation for production and development environments.
