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diff --git a/docs/experiments-msmarco-passage.md b/docs/experiments-msmarco-passage.md
@@ -538,3 +538,6 @@ The BM25 run with default parameters `k1=0.9`, `b=0.4` roughly corresponds to th
 + Results reproduced by [@b8zhong](https://github.com/b8zhong) on 2024-11-23 (commit [`c619dc8`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/c619dc8d9ab28298251964053a927906e9957f51))
 + Results reproduced by [@ShreyasP20](https://github.com/ShreyasP20) on 2024-11-24 (commit [`c619dc8`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/c619dc8d9ab28298251964053a927906e9957f51))
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++ Results reproduced by [@nihalmenon](https://github.com/nihalmenon) on 2024-11-29 (commit [`aa91e2db`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/aa91e2db224c752cc6a947bdf66bdbf9ce90af25))
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++ Results reproduced by [@zdann15](https://github.com/zdann15) on 2024-12-04 (commit [`9d311b4`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/9d311b4409a9ff3d79b01910178eaec3931f0abe))
diff --git a/.../regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/.../regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md b/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md b/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ns/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...ns/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...ions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...essions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md b/...essions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...gressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md b/...gressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-arguana.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md b/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md b/docs/regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...sions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...sions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md b/...ressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...egressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md b/...egressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-bioasq.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...ions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ssions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...ssions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...gressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md b/...gressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md b/...regressions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...ressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...egressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...egressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...s/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md b/...s/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md b/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-climate-fever.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...egressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...egressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/.../regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/.../regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md b/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...sions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md b/...sions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ns-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...ns-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...ions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...essions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md b/...essions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...gressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md b/...gressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-android.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...egressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...egressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/.../regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/.../regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md b/...ons/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...sions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md b/...sions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ns-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...ns-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...ions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...essions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md b/...essions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...gressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md b/...gressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5.parquet.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-english.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md b/...regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...s/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md b/...s/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw-int8.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md b/...ions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.cached.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval
 

diff --git a/...ssions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md b/...ssions/regressions-beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5.hnsw.onnx.md
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ bin/run.sh io.anserini.index.IndexHnswDenseVectors \
 ```
 
 The path `/path/to/beir-v1.0.0-cqadupstack-gaming.bge-base-en-v1.5/` should point to the corpus downloaded above.
-Note that here we are explicitly using Lucene's `NoMergePolicy` merge policy, which suppresses any merging of index segments.
-This is because merging index segments is a costly operation and not worthwhile given our query set.
 
 ## Retrieval