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A cross-encoder reranker can only reorder the candidates returned by retrieval; if vector search buries the correct text chunk at position 14 while only the top 10 are taken, the reranker cannot see it; the reranker should be placed after hybrid retrieval rather than replacing hybrid retrieval.
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