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Near-Duplicate Video Detection System

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Design a near-duplicate / visually similar video detection system for a very large short-video platform, covering large-scale embedding retrieval, embedding compression/quantization for high query volume, handling false positives via human review and appeals, and quantitatively modeling the tradeoff between embedding dimensionality, retrieval quality, and serving latency. Asked in the ML / system design stage. Candidate said this was the hardest round; felt weakest on the human-review calibration and quantitative quality-vs-latency questions. Reported follow-ups: Scale to production-size corpus; Human-in-the-loop appeal process