https://dpolens.com/blog Notes from building DPOLens, by Alkhatib Adam. en https://dpolens.com/blog/reranker-made-search-worse https://dpolens.com/blog/reranker-made-search-worse Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT I added a cross-encoder reranker to DPOLens's hybrid search and measured it on 30 held-out GDPR questions. It brought recall@5 down from 0.77 to as low as 0.43, so DPOLens ships without one. Search