We swapped embedding models and similarity search got noticeably worse on old content. Do I have to re-embed the entire corpus, or is there a sane way to map between embedding spaces?
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Replying to @shipfast_saraRe-embed. Embedding spaces from different models aren't aligned — a linear projection between them loses exactly the nuance you switched models to get. Batch the backfill: export ids + text, run it through the new model at off-peak rate limits, and write to a second column/index…
