#ML Search Precision & Duplicate Photos

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stray echo
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What has been everyone's solution to an issue where search quality changes?

For context, prior to 2.3.1, my searches when looking for a person and something else (e.g., John by a red car, Monica by the beach) was pretty much on point 99% of the time. Recently it's been way out of wack after updating.

Does one simply reset face detection/recognition and run it all again?

2nd, I noticed that the same pictures keep coming up again and again after deduplication, even though I have "rw" on the path; curious to know if anyone ran into that and how they resolved it

TIA

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frail spindle
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The smart search does not use person names at all..

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you can filter by person, but free text person names doesn't do anything

stray echo
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My experience has been different, at least for the most part; if I for example type "Sarah Beach" or "Sarah and beach", it shows me the right person while they're at the beach, without explicitly selecting the person from the list

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Of course, I do get much more precise pictures when they're selected from the people list

frail spindle
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It just takes a guess as to what "sarah" looks like based on ML model inference

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You could probably pick another demographically similar name and get a similar response

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For example, I just searched for "sarah beach" and it shows pictures of my wife, who is not named Sarah

stray echo
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Yeah fair enough; I do get better results when selecting the person first then adding words, but wasn't sure is there was a way to better enhance that specific capability

frail spindle
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No, there is not.

tidal otter
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Out of curiosity, there should be a log reporting the number of faces and embeddings when the server starts up. How many of each are there based on that log?

stray echo
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Where do I find that log?