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Retrieval & EmbeddingsMedium· Multimodal Retrieval· CLIP· Thresholding

Your multimodal retriever never returns any images, eve...

A strong diagnostic approach begins by pulling the raw image similarity scores for a known-good query to compare them against the system’s cutoff. It is common for global thresholds, often calibrated on text, to be set significantly higher than the actual scoring range of a CLIP-based image encoder. A weak answer would prematurely suggest retraining the image encoder without first verifying the score distribution produced by the current model.

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