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Why called `ef`?

Open gitfourteen opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Really feel bothering to call a critical parameter something like ef without knowing its literal meaning or its acronym.

gitfourteen avatar Oct 16 '24 11:10 gitfourteen

Finally, find someone do a decent patch-work: EF stands for Enter Factor. Relieved.

gitfourteen avatar Oct 21 '24 09:10 gitfourteen

Hi @gitfourteen, Sorry for a late reply. ef initially meant "ensure factor", which meant this parameter ensures the high recall, but was grammatically incorrect.

yurymalkov avatar Oct 27 '24 21:10 yurymalkov