adaptive-retrieval-threshold-per-relationship-type

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Created 2026-08-25T02:58:12+00:00

In Adaptive Retrieval, the popularity threshold is tuned independently for each relationship type on a development set to maximize combined accuracy.

Summary

Different kinds of connections between entities need different cutoffs for what counts as popular enough to retrieve, so each type gets its own threshold rather than one global number. This per-type tuning on a development set exists because a single threshold would either miss valid links or flood results with noise, and optimizing them individually is what lets the system hit its best overall accuracy.