vrtx0 4 days ago

Thank you! This is exactly the information the OP seems to have missed. It seems to confirm my suspicion that the author’s concerns about server-side privacy are unfounded — I think:

> The client decrypts the reply to its PNNS query, which may contain multiple candidate landmarks. A specialized, lightweight on-device reranking model then predicts the best candidate…

[please correct me if I missed anything — this used to be my field, but I’ve been disabled for 10 years now, so grain of salt]

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  • chikere232 4 days ago

    The devil is in the proprietary details though.

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    • vrtx0 4 days ago

      Sorry, what do you mean by “proprietary details”?

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      • sbuk 4 days ago

        They are alluding to the fact that the implementation is closed source, and therefore "untrustworthy". It's a trite point, of course, but not without some merit.

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