Comment by vrtx0
16 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]
The devil is in the proprietary details though.
Sorry, what do you mean by “proprietary details”?
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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