BayesianScoreEstimator (Lucene 10.5.1 core API)
Description: declaration: package: org.apache.lucene.search, class: BayesianScoreEstimator

Package org.apache.lucene.search

# Class BayesianScoreEstimator

java.lang.Object
org.apache.lucene.search.BayesianScoreEstimator

public class BayesianScoreEstimator extends Object
Estimates `BayesianScoreQuery` parameters (alpha, beta, base rate) from corpus statistics via pseudo-query sampling.

The estimation algorithm:

1. Reservoir-sample terms from the target field's indexed vocabulary
2. Partition the sampled terms into pseudo-queries
3. Run each pseudo-query via BM25 and collect the score distribution
4. Estimate: beta = median(scores), alpha = 1 / std(scores)
5. Estimate base rate: mean fraction of documents scoring above the 95th percentile

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

- ## Nested Class Summary

  Nested Classes
  Modifier and Type
  Class
  Description
  `static final record`
  `BayesianScoreEstimator.Parameters`
  Estimated parameters for `BayesianScoreQuery`.

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `static BayesianScoreEstimator.Parameters`
  `estimate(IndexSearcher searcher, String field)`
  Estimates parameters with default settings (50 samples, 5 tokens per query, seed 42).
  `static BayesianScoreEstimator.Parameters`
  `estimate(IndexSearcher searcher, String field, int nSamples, int tokensPerQuery, long seed)`
  Estimates BayesianScoreQuery parameters from the given index.

  ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

  `clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

- ## Method Details

  - ### estimate

    public static BayesianScoreEstimator.Parameters estimate(IndexSearcher searcher, String field, int nSamples, int tokensPerQuery, long seed) throws IOException
    Estimates BayesianScoreQuery parameters from the given index.
    Parameters:
      `searcher` - the index searcher to sample from
      `field` - the indexed text field to create pseudo-queries for
      `nSamples` - number of pseudo-queries to sample (default 50)
      `tokensPerQuery` - number of indexed terms per pseudo-query (default 5)
      `seed` - random seed for reproducible sampling
    Returns:
      estimated alpha, beta, and base rate
    Throws:
      `IOException` - if an I/O error occurs reading the index

  - ### estimate

    public static BayesianScoreEstimator.Parameters estimate(IndexSearcher searcher, String field) throws IOException
    Estimates parameters with default settings (50 samples, 5 tokens per query, seed 42).
    Parameters:
      `searcher` - the index searcher
      `field` - the text field
    Returns:
      estimated parameters
    Throws:
      `IOException` - if an I/O error occurs