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TF-IDF multiplies how often a term appears in a document by how rare it is across the corpus. The rarity factor ln(N/df) is what suppresses stopwords: a word in every document has an IDF of zero and therefore no weight, while a term in one percent of documents gets a large multiplier and dominates the vector.
TF-IDF
tf = count / document length; idf = ln(N / df); weight = tf x idf
Because the term appears in every document, making ln(N/df) = ln(1) = 0. Smoothed variants add 1 to the denominator and the result to avoid this.
BM25 saturates term frequency so the twentieth occurrence adds little, and normalises by document length relative to the corpus average, which makes it far more robust on mixed-length documents.