Lesson 09← back to roadmap
Pure ANN misses exact keywords. Pure lexical misses paraphrases. Fuse both.
python
hits = docs.seek_hybrid(
query=embed("alpha design note"),
text="alpha design note",
top=5,
lexical_weight=0.25, # default per docs/cpp/api-reference/vault.md
)lexical_weight ∈ [0, 1]. 0 means pure vector; 1 means pure lexical. The fused score is on each SearchResult.