Merge pull request #4766 from guardian/em-default-vecweight-0.8

ellenmuller · web-flow · commit 728a03f588a6 · 2026-06-17T16:09:22.000+01:00
default vecWeight to 0.8
diff --git a/media-api/app/controllers/MediaApi.scala b/media-api/app/controllers/MediaApi.scala
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ class MediaApi(
             logger.info(markers, s"AI search embedding cache miss query=$semanticQuery")
           }
 
-          val weight = params.vecWeight.getOrElse(1.0)
+          val weight = params.vecWeight.getOrElse(0.8)
 
           // cache.get(key) is atomic: if two requests race on the same key, only one
           // load fires and both callers receive the same Future.

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ class MediaApi(`
`650`	`650`	`logger.info(markers, s"AI search embedding cache miss query=$semanticQuery")`
`651`	`651`	`}`
`652`	`652`
`653`		`- val weight = params.vecWeight.getOrElse(1.0)`
	`653`	`+ val weight = params.vecWeight.getOrElse(0.8)`
`654`	`654`
`655`	`655`	`// cache.get(key) is atomic: if two requests race on the same key, only one`
`656`	`656`	`// load fires and both callers receive the same Future.`