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Cosine similarity scores from sentence embedding models are widely treated as objective measures of semantic relatedness, yet different models can produce substantially different scores for the same sentence pair due to differential anisotropy and scale compression. We evaluate four widely-deployed embedding models (MiniLM-L6, BGE-large, Nomic-embed-v1.

Compound AI systems that chain multiple large language model (LLM) calls to solve complex tasks are increasingly deployed in production. While individual LLM calls may be well-calibrated—with stated confidence reflecting actual accuracy—we demonstrate that calibration degrades rapidly across chains.