diff --git a/src/components/Filters/types/String.js b/src/components/Filters/types/String.js
index 02a25365..00c93fc2 100644
--- a/src/components/Filters/types/String.js
+++ b/src/components/Filters/types/String.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { observer } from "mobx-react";
 import React from "react";
 import { FilterInput } from "../FilterInput";
-import { VariantSelect } from "./List";
 
 const BaseInput = observer(({ value, onChange, placeholder }) => {
   return (
@@ -46,10 +45,4 @@ export const StringFilter = [
     valueType: "single",
     input: (props) => <BaseInput {...props} />,
   },
-  {
-    key: "similar_to",
-    label: "similar to",
-    valueType: "list",
-    input: (props) => <VariantSelect {...props} />,
-  },
 ];
diff --git a/src/stores/DataStores/tasks.js b/src/stores/DataStores/tasks.js
index 1ea7c0e1..fdd76210 100644
--- a/src/stores/DataStores/tasks.js
+++ b/src/stores/DataStores/tasks.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { DynamicModel, registerModel } from "../DynamicModel";
 import { CustomJSON } from "../types";
 import { FF_DEV_2536, FF_LOPS_E_3, isFF } from "../../utils/feature-flags";
 
+const SIMILARITY_UPPER_LIMIT_PRECISION = 1000;
 const fileAttributes = types.model({
   "certainty": types.optional(types.maybeNull(types.number), 0),
   "distance": types.optional(types.maybeNull(types.number), 0),
@@ -218,17 +219,19 @@ export const create = (columns) => {
       },
 
       postProcessData(data) {
-        const { total_annotations, total_predictions } = data;
+        const { total_annotations, total_predictions, similarity_score_upper_limit } = data;
 
         if (total_annotations !== null)
           self.totalAnnotations = total_annotations;
         if (total_predictions !== null)
           self.totalPredictions = total_predictions;
+        if (!isNaN(similarity_score_upper_limit))
+          self.similarityUpperLimit = (Math.ceil(similarity_score_upper_limit * SIMILARITY_UPPER_LIMIT_PRECISION) / SIMILARITY_UPPER_LIMIT_PRECISION);
       },
 
     }))
     .preProcessSnapshot((snapshot) => {
-      const { total_annotations, total_predictions, ...sn } = snapshot;
+      const { total_annotations, total_predictions, similarity_score_upper_limit, ...sn } = snapshot;
 
       return {
         ...sn,
@@ -239,6 +242,7 @@ export const create = (columns) => {
         })),
         totalAnnotations: total_annotations,
         totalPredictions: total_predictions,
+        similarityUpperLimit: similarity_score_upper_limit,
       };
     });
 };
diff --git a/src/stores/Tabs/tab.js b/src/stores/Tabs/tab.js
index 72b81e54..204f61ee 100644
--- a/src/stores/Tabs/tab.js
+++ b/src/stores/Tabs/tab.js
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ import { TabSelectedItems } from "./tab_selected_items";
 import { History } from '../../utils/history';
 import { FF_DEV_1470, FF_LOPS_12, isFF } from "../../utils/feature-flags";
 import { CustomJSON, StringOrNumberID, ThresholdType } from "../types";
+import { clamp } from "../../utils/helpers";
 
-const DEFAULT_THRESHOLD = { min: 0, max: 10 };
+const THRESHOLD_MIN = 0;
+const THRESHOLD_MIN_DIFF = 0.001;
 
 export const Tab = types
   .model("View", {
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ export const Tab = types
     editable: true,
     deletable: true,
     semantic_search: types.optional(types.array(CustomJSON), []),
-    threshold: types.optional(ThresholdType, DEFAULT_THRESHOLD),
+    threshold: types.optional(types.maybeNull(ThresholdType), null),
   })
   .volatile(() => {
     const defaultWidth = getComputedStyle(document.body).getPropertyValue("--menu-sidebar-width").replace("px", "").trim();
@@ -218,7 +220,7 @@ export const Tab = types
         columnsDisplayType: self.columnsDisplayType.toPOJO(),
         gridWidth: self.gridWidth,
         semantic_search: self.semantic_search?.toJSON() ?? [],
-        threshold: self.threshold?.toJSON() ?? DEFAULT_THRESHOLD,
+        threshold: self.threshold?.toJSON(),
       };
 
       if (self.saved || apiVersion === 1) {
@@ -305,14 +307,30 @@ export const Tab = types
       self.selected = ids;
     },
 
-    setSemanticSearch(semanticSearchList) {
+    setSemanticSearch(semanticSearchList, min, max) {
       self.semantic_search = semanticSearchList ?? [];
-      return self.save();
+      /* if no semantic search we have to clean up threshold */
+      if (self.semantic_search.length === 0) {
+        self.threshold = null;
+        return self.save();
+      }
+      /* if we have a min and max we need to make sure we save that too.
+      this prevents firing 2 view save requests to accomplish the same thing */
+      return ( !isNaN(min) && !isNaN(max) ) ? self.setSemanticSearchThreshold(min, max) : self.save();
     },
     
-    setSemanticSearchThreshold(min, max) {
-      self.threshold = { min, max };
-      return self.save();
+    setSemanticSearchThreshold(_min, max) {
+      const min = clamp(_min ?? THRESHOLD_MIN, THRESHOLD_MIN, max - THRESHOLD_MIN_DIFF);
+
+      if (self.semantic_search?.length && !isNaN(min) && !isNaN(max)) {
+        self.threshold = { min, max };
+        return self.save();
+      }
+    },
+
+    clearSemanticSearchThreshold(save = true) {
+      self.threshold = null;
+      return save && self.save();
     },
 
     selectAll() {
@@ -381,6 +399,8 @@ export const Tab = types
       } else if (isFF(FF_LOPS_12) && self.root.SDK.type === 'labelops') {
         yield self.dataStore.reload({ query: self.query, interaction });
       }
+
+      getRoot(self).SDK.invoke("tabReloaded", self);
     }),
 
     deleteFilter(filter) {
diff --git a/src/stores/types.js b/src/stores/types.js
index 0c18ed0a..28d7c70d 100644
--- a/src/stores/types.js
+++ b/src/stores/types.js
@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ export const HtmlOrReact = types.custom({
 });
 
 export const ThresholdType = types.model("ThresholdType", {
-  min: types.number,
-  max: types.number,
+  min: types.maybeNull(types.number),
+  max: types.maybeNull(types.number),
 });
\ No newline at end of file