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ECO-AIM-AI-003 — Re-embedding unchanged data

  • Category: AI/ML (AIM)
  • Family: AI (AI)
  • Layer: AI
  • Tier: 2
  • Severity: warning
  • Tags: ai, embeddings
  • Legacy ID: ECO-AI-003

Summary

Recomputing embeddings for unchanged inputs wastes compute.

Rationale

Embeddings should be cached based on content hash/version.

Impact

{
  "confidence": 0.75,
  "notes": "Common in RAG pipelines.",
  "type": "cpu"
}

Detection

{
  "languages": [
    "python"
  ],
  "method": "hybrid"
}

Remediation

{
  "guidance": "Cache embeddings; invalidate on content change only.",
  "tradeoffs": "Cache management."
}

Ontology

{
  "system_layers": [
    "ai"
  ]
}