Retrieval quality is the quality of the evidence set you hand to the next stage of the system.
Precision@k
Precision@k explains how much of the top-k set is relevant. It is intuitive for search and recommendation but can hide important items that never enter the candidate set.
Recall@k
Recall@k measures how much relevant material was recovered. It becomes especially important when retrieval is a first stage before reranking.
NDCG@k
NDCG rewards relevant items appearing earlier in the list and supports graded relevance. It is useful when position matters.
Inspect failure cases
Review duplicates, stale vectors, visually similar but semantically wrong items, missing candidates, and metadata violations. Those examples often reveal the next engineering change.
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AI Developer / ML Engineer building end-to-end AI systems from research to production, with a focus on multimodal AI, LLM applications, retrieval, MLOps, and systems engineering. He is based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and is the founder of GROVE SYSTEMS.