Hacker News Reader

Apparently they only do the cloud HE song and dance for landmarks, which is too big of a data set to realistically keep on-device.

I discuss this in the post:

> This seems like a lot of data the client is getting anyway. I don’t blame you for questioning if the server is actually needed. The thing is, the stored vectors that are compared against are by far the biggest storage user. Each vector can easily be multiple kilobytes. The paper discusses a database of 35 million entries divided across 8500 clusters.

Here's an open source iOS app[1] that does that. Incidentally, it's built using Apple's own MobileCLIP[2] models.

[1]: https://github.com/fguzman82/CLIP-Finder2 [2]: https://github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip

Because the blog post needs some sort of concrete example to explain, but all concrete examples of fully-homeomorphic encryption are generally done better locally at the moment due to the extreme costs of FHE.

That’s what they do