I am using locally setup Weaviate. And I have class with schema as class_obj = { "class": "Test3", "vectorizer": "text2vec-openai", "moduleConfig": { "text2vec-openai": { "model": "ada", "modelVersion": "002", "type": "text" } } } and ingested data. I have data in…

Hi @amani-acog - the similarity value comes from the model (in this case OpenAI), and is not to do with Weaviate. Additionally, the number itself would not necessarily tell you if two values are “sufficiently” similar, as there is a degree of judgment involved. I have seen our users choose whatever…

.near_text results are not satisfactory (distance scores too close)

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dandv June 20, 2023, 1:42pm 3

Seconding @jphwang’s answer. I’ve added this as an FAQ.

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.near_text results are not satisfactory (distance scores too close)

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