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You switched to proposition indexing and recall@5 dropp...

Recall@5 over propositions is not directly comparable to recall@5 over passages because the token density differs significantly. Additionally, the index size increase can cause ANN recall to degrade if the search parameters (efSearch) are not adjusted. Always verify the metric before assuming a system regression.

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