diff --git a/mobile/lib/db/ml/clip_db.dart b/mobile/lib/db/ml/clip_db.dart
index 477be3de83..f160924d52 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/db/ml/clip_db.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/db/ml/clip_db.dart
@@ -7,16 +7,23 @@ import "package:photos/db/ml/db_fields.dart";
 import "package:photos/events/embedding_updated_event.dart";
 import "package:photos/models/ml/clip.dart";
 import "package:photos/models/ml/ml_versions.dart";
+import "package:photos/models/ml/vector.dart";
 
 extension ClipDB on MLDataDB {
   static const databaseName = "ente.embeddings.db";
 
-  Future<List<ClipEmbedding>> getAll() async {
+  Future<List<ClipEmbedding>> getAllClipEmbeddings() async {
     final db = await MLDataDB.instance.asyncDB;
     final results = await db.getAll('SELECT * FROM $clipTable');
     return _convertToEmbeddings(results);
   }
 
+  Future<List<EmbeddingVector>> getAllClipVectors() async {
+    final db = await MLDataDB.instance.asyncDB;
+    final results = await db.getAll('SELECT * FROM $clipTable');
+    return _convertToVectors(results);
+  }
+
   // Get indexed FileIDs
   Future<Map<int, int>> clipIndexedFileWithVersion() async {
     final db = await MLDataDB.instance.asyncDB;
@@ -83,6 +90,16 @@ extension ClipDB on MLDataDB {
     return embeddings;
   }
 
+  List<EmbeddingVector> _convertToVectors(List<Map<String, dynamic>> results) {
+    final List<EmbeddingVector> embeddings = [];
+    for (final result in results) {
+      final embedding = _getVectorFromRow(result);
+      if (embedding.isEmpty) continue;
+      embeddings.add(embedding);
+    }
+    return embeddings;
+  }
+
   ClipEmbedding _getEmbeddingFromRow(Map<String, dynamic> row) {
     final fileID = row[fileIDColumn] as int;
     final bytes = row[embeddingColumn] as Uint8List;
@@ -91,6 +108,13 @@ extension ClipDB on MLDataDB {
     return ClipEmbedding(fileID: fileID, embedding: list, version: version);
   }
 
+  EmbeddingVector _getVectorFromRow(Map<String, dynamic> row) {
+    final fileID = row[fileIDColumn] as int;
+    final bytes = row[embeddingColumn] as Uint8List;
+    final list = Float32List.view(bytes.buffer);
+    return EmbeddingVector(fileID: fileID, embedding: list);
+  }
+
   List<Object?> _getRowFromEmbedding(ClipEmbedding embedding) {
     return [
       embedding.fileID,
diff --git a/mobile/lib/models/ml/vector.dart b/mobile/lib/models/ml/vector.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b0fd21491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mobile/lib/models/ml/vector.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import "dart:convert";
+
+import "package:ml_linalg/vector.dart";
+
+class EmbeddingVector {
+  final int fileID;
+  final Vector vector;
+
+  bool get isEmpty => vector.isEmpty;
+
+  EmbeddingVector({
+    required this.fileID,
+    required List<double> embedding,
+  }) : vector = Vector.fromList(embedding);
+
+  static Vector decodeEmbedding(String embedding) {
+    return Vector.fromList(List<double>.from(jsonDecode(embedding) as List));
+  }
+
+  static String encodeEmbedding(Vector embedding) {
+    return jsonEncode(embedding.toList());
+  }
+}
diff --git a/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/semantic_search/semantic_search_service.dart b/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/semantic_search/semantic_search_service.dart
index 7beb284df7..e145dcb83f 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/semantic_search/semantic_search_service.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/semantic_search/semantic_search_service.dart
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import "dart:ui" show Image;
 import "package:computer/computer.dart";
 import "package:flutter/foundation.dart";
 import "package:logging/logging.dart";
+import "package:ml_linalg/vector.dart";
 import "package:photos/core/cache/lru_map.dart";
 import "package:photos/core/event_bus.dart";
 import "package:photos/db/files_db.dart";
@@ -15,9 +16,9 @@ import 'package:photos/events/embedding_updated_event.dart';
 import "package:photos/models/file/file.dart";
 import "package:photos/models/ml/clip.dart";
 import "package:photos/models/ml/ml_versions.dart";
+import "package:photos/models/ml/vector.dart";
 import "package:photos/service_locator.dart";
 import "package:photos/services/collections_service.dart";
-import "package:photos/services/machine_learning/face_ml/face_clustering/cosine_distance.dart";
 import "package:photos/services/machine_learning/ml_computer.dart";
 import "package:photos/services/machine_learning/ml_result.dart";
 import "package:photos/services/machine_learning/semantic_search/clip/clip_image_encoder.dart";
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ class SemanticSearchService {
   bool _hasInitialized = false;
   bool _textModelIsLoaded = false;
 
-  Future<List<ClipEmbedding>>? _cachedImageEmbeddings;
+  Future<List<EmbeddingVector>>? _cachedImageEmbeddingVectors;
   Future<(String, List<EnteFile>)>? _searchScreenRequest;
   String? _latestPendingQuery;
 
@@ -53,10 +54,10 @@ class SemanticSearchService {
 
     // call getClipEmbeddings after 5 seconds
     Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 5), () async {
-      await getClipEmbeddings();
+      await getClipVectors();
     });
     Bus.instance.on<EmbeddingUpdatedEvent>().listen((event) {
-      _cachedImageEmbeddings = null;
+      _cachedImageEmbeddingVectors = null;
     });
 
     unawaited(_loadTextModel(delay: true));
@@ -106,10 +107,10 @@ class SemanticSearchService {
     _logger.info("Indexes cleared");
   }
 
-  Future<List<ClipEmbedding>> getClipEmbeddings() async {
-    _logger.info("Pulling cached embeddings");
-    _cachedImageEmbeddings ??= MLDataDB.instance.getAll();
-    return _cachedImageEmbeddings!;
+  Future<List<EmbeddingVector>> getClipVectors() async {
+    _logger.info("Pulling cached clip embeddings");
+    _cachedImageEmbeddingVectors ??= MLDataDB.instance.getAllClipVectors();
+    return _cachedImageEmbeddingVectors!;
   }
 
   Future<List<EnteFile>> getMatchingFiles(
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ class SemanticSearchService {
     double? minimumSimilarity,
   }) async {
     final startTime = DateTime.now();
-    final embeddings = await getClipEmbeddings();
+    final embeddings = await getClipVectors();
     final List<QueryResult> queryResults = await _computer.compute(
       computeBulkSimilarities,
       param: {
@@ -311,25 +312,33 @@ class SemanticSearchService {
 
 List<QueryResult> computeBulkSimilarities(Map args) {
   final queryResults = <QueryResult>[];
-  final imageEmbeddings = args["imageEmbeddings"] as List<ClipEmbedding>;
+  final imageEmbeddings = args["imageEmbeddings"] as List<EmbeddingVector>;
   final textEmbedding = args["textEmbedding"] as List<double>;
   final minimumSimilarity = args["minimumSimilarity"] ??
       SemanticSearchService.kMinimumSimilarityThreshold;
-  double bestScore = 0.0;
-  for (final imageEmbedding in imageEmbeddings) {
-    final score = computeCosineSimilarity(
-      imageEmbedding.embedding,
-      textEmbedding,
-    );
-    if (score >= minimumSimilarity) {
-      queryResults.add(QueryResult(imageEmbedding.fileID, score));
+
+  final Vector textVector = Vector.fromList(textEmbedding);
+  if (!kDebugMode) {
+    for (final imageEmbedding in imageEmbeddings) {
+      final similarity = imageEmbedding.vector.dot(textVector);
+      if (similarity >= minimumSimilarity) {
+        queryResults.add(QueryResult(imageEmbedding.fileID, similarity));
+      }
     }
-    if (score > bestScore) {
-      bestScore = score;
+  } else {
+    double bestScore = 0.0;
+    for (final imageEmbedding in imageEmbeddings) {
+      final similarity = imageEmbedding.vector.dot(textVector);
+      if (similarity >= minimumSimilarity) {
+        queryResults.add(QueryResult(imageEmbedding.fileID, similarity));
+      }
+      if (similarity > bestScore) {
+        bestScore = similarity;
+      }
+    }
+    if (kDebugMode && queryResults.isEmpty) {
+      dev.log("No results found for query with best score: $bestScore");
     }
-  }
-  if (kDebugMode && queryResults.isEmpty) {
-    dev.log("No results found for query with best score: $bestScore");
   }
 
   queryResults.sort((first, second) => second.score.compareTo(first.score));