diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/MenuWithPeople.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/MenuWithPeople.tsx
index 6ebc0d942..9b5d59eac 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/MenuWithPeople.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/MenuWithPeople.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { t } from "i18next";
 import { AppContext } from "pages/_app";
 import { useContext } from "react";
 import { components } from "react-select";
-import { IndexStatus } from "types/machineLearning/ui";
+import { IndexStatus } from "utils/storage/mlIDbStorage";
 import { Suggestion, SuggestionType } from "types/search";
 
 const { Menu } = components;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx
index 3f737b3e0..3b995b849 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {
 import { Collection } from "types/collection";
 import { LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { Person } from "types/machineLearning";
+import { Person } from "services/ml/types";
 import {
     ClipSearchScores,
     DateValue,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx
index 4691d4b65..ea317fbec 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { Legend } from "components/PhotoViewer/styledComponents/Legend";
 import { t } from "i18next";
 import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { Face, Person } from "types/machineLearning";
+import { Face, Person } from "services/ml/types";
 import { getPeopleList, getUnidentifiedFaces } from "utils/machineLearning";
 
 const FaceChipContainer = styled("div")`
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/constants/mlConfig.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/constants/mlConfig.ts
index 929594e1c..d8aaeb410 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/constants/mlConfig.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/constants/mlConfig.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { JobConfig } from "types/common/job";
-import { MLSearchConfig, MLSyncConfig } from "types/machineLearning";
+import { MLSearchConfig, MLSyncConfig } from "services/ml/types";
 
 export const DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_JOB_CONFIG: JobConfig = {
     intervalSec: 5,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceAlignmentService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceAlignmentService.ts
index 99063b3f2..1d7deac5e 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceAlignmentService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceAlignmentService.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
     FaceAlignmentService,
     FaceDetection,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 import { getArcfaceAlignment } from "utils/machineLearning/faceAlign";
 
 class ArcfaceAlignmentService implements FaceAlignmentService {
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceCropService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceCropService.ts
index cb6ccd029..f5e1e835a 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceCropService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/arcfaceCropService.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
     FaceCropService,
     FaceDetection,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 import { getArcfaceAlignment } from "utils/machineLearning/faceAlign";
 import { getFaceCrop } from "utils/machineLearning/faceCrop";
 
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts
index 03931b63b..32c25f698 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/clusteringService.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
     ClusteringResults,
     HdbscanResults,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 
 class ClusteringService {
     private dbscan: DBSCAN;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts
index 33298eef3..57d181de4 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/dbscanClusteringService.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
     ClusteringService,
     HdbscanResults,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 
 class DbscanClusteringService implements ClusteringService {
     public method: Versioned<ClusteringMethod>;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts
index 1dedadf15..6bb045ae2 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/faceService.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
     Face,
     MLSyncContext,
     MLSyncFileContext,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 import { imageBitmapToBlob } from "utils/image";
 import {
     areFaceIdsSame,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts
index 21e211825..0671b0bde 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/hdbscanClusteringService.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
     ClusteringService,
     HdbscanResults,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 
 class HdbscanClusteringService implements ClusteringService {
     public method: Versioned<ClusteringMethod>;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/laplacianBlurDetectionService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/laplacianBlurDetectionService.ts
index 3357e21cc..f1d7bf500 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/laplacianBlurDetectionService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/laplacianBlurDetectionService.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
     BlurDetectionService,
     Face,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 import { createGrayscaleIntMatrixFromNormalized2List } from "utils/image";
 import { mobileFaceNetFaceSize } from "./mobileFaceNetEmbeddingService";
 
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningFactory.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningFactory.ts
index 991ae6808..999bae8fe 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningFactory.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningFactory.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { ComlinkWorker } from "@/next/worker/comlink-worker";
 import { getDedicatedCryptoWorker } from "@ente/shared/crypto";
 import { DedicatedCryptoWorker } from "@ente/shared/crypto/internal/crypto.worker";
 import PQueue from "p-queue";
-import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
 import {
     BlurDetectionMethod,
     BlurDetectionService,
@@ -22,7 +21,8 @@ import {
     MLLibraryData,
     MLSyncConfig,
     MLSyncContext,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
+import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
 import { logQueueStats } from "utils/machineLearning";
 import arcfaceAlignmentService from "./arcfaceAlignmentService";
 import arcfaceCropService from "./arcfaceCropService";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts
index 03a3b7e2c..f2354f7b1 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ import { MAX_ML_SYNC_ERROR_COUNT } from "constants/mlConfig";
 import downloadManager from "services/download";
 import { putEmbedding } from "services/embeddingService";
 import { getLocalFiles } from "services/fileService";
-import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
 import {
     MLSyncContext,
     MLSyncFileContext,
     MLSyncResult,
     MlFileData,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
+import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
 import { getMLSyncConfig } from "utils/machineLearning/config";
 import { LocalFileMlDataToServerFileMl } from "utils/machineLearning/mldataMappers";
 import mlIDbStorage from "utils/storage/mlIDbStorage";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mlWorkManager.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mlWorkManager.ts
index d1c5e9db5..c75d4b14a 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mlWorkManager.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mlWorkManager.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import { eventBus, Events } from "@ente/shared/events";
 import { getToken, getUserID } from "@ente/shared/storage/localStorage/helpers";
 import debounce from "debounce";
 import PQueue from "p-queue";
+import { MLSyncResult } from "services/ml/types";
 import { JobResult } from "types/common/job";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { MLSyncResult } from "types/machineLearning";
 import { getDedicatedMLWorker } from "utils/comlink/ComlinkMLWorker";
 import { SimpleJob } from "utils/common/job";
 import { logQueueStats } from "utils/machineLearning";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mobileFaceNetEmbeddingService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mobileFaceNetEmbeddingService.ts
index 818b8a5d1..1b2205801 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mobileFaceNetEmbeddingService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/mobileFaceNetEmbeddingService.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
     FaceEmbeddingMethod,
     FaceEmbeddingService,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 
 export const mobileFaceNetFaceSize = 112;
 
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/peopleService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/peopleService.ts
index ad7d7bcec..f4ed5104b 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/peopleService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/peopleService.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import log from "@/next/log";
-import { Face, MLSyncContext, Person } from "types/machineLearning";
+import { Face, MLSyncContext, Person } from "services/ml/types";
 import {
     findFirstIfSorted,
     getAllFacesFromMap,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/readerService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/readerService.ts
index 62aebdbd1..44d0738f5 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/readerService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/readerService.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { FILE_TYPE } from "@/media/file-type";
 import log from "@/next/log";
-import { MLSyncContext, MLSyncFileContext } from "types/machineLearning";
+import { MLSyncContext, MLSyncFileContext } from "services/ml/types";
 import {
     getLocalFileImageBitmap,
     getOriginalImageBitmap,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/yoloFaceDetectionService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/yoloFaceDetectionService.ts
index 4fa840749..b9a2ed1b6 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/yoloFaceDetectionService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/yoloFaceDetectionService.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 import { workerBridge } from "@/next/worker/worker-bridge";
 import { euclidean } from "hdbscan";
+import {
+    FaceDetection,
+    FaceDetectionMethod,
+    FaceDetectionService,
+    Versioned,
+} from "services/ml/types";
 import {
     Matrix,
     applyToPoint,
@@ -8,12 +14,6 @@ import {
     translate,
 } from "transformation-matrix";
 import { Dimensions } from "types/image";
-import {
-    FaceDetection,
-    FaceDetectionMethod,
-    FaceDetectionService,
-    Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
 import {
     clamp,
     getPixelBilinear,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts
similarity index 89%
rename from web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts
rename to web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts
index 2c3961cdf..1c95717f5 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ml/types.ts
@@ -329,3 +329,46 @@ export interface MachineLearningWorker {
 
     close(): void;
 }
+
+export interface ClipEmbedding {
+    embedding: Float32Array;
+    model: "ggml-clip" | "onnx-clip";
+}
+
+/// [`x`] and [y] are the coordinates of the top left corner of the box, so the minimim values
+/// [width] and [height] are the width and height of the box.
+/// All values are in absolute pixels relative to the original image size.
+export interface CenterBox {
+    x: number;
+    y: number;
+    height: number;
+    width: number;
+}
+
+export interface DetectionPoint {
+    x: number;
+    y: number;
+}
+
+export interface Detection {
+    box: CenterBox;
+    landmarks: DetectionPoint[];
+}
+
+export interface FileMLFace {
+    id: string;
+    confidence: number;
+    blur: number;
+    embedding: Float32Array;
+    detection: Detection;
+}
+
+export interface FileML {
+    fileID: number;
+    clip?: ClipEmbedding;
+    faces: Face[];
+    height: number;
+    width: number;
+    version: number;
+    error?: string;
+}
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
index 96c574b9d..7c00dec72 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ import { FILE_TYPE } from "@/media/file-type";
 import log from "@/next/log";
 import * as chrono from "chrono-node";
 import { t } from "i18next";
+import { Person } from "services/ml/types";
 import { Collection } from "types/collection";
 import { EntityType, LocationTag, LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { Person } from "types/machineLearning";
 import {
     ClipSearchScores,
     DateValue,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/clip.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/clip.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 0181e89e5..000000000
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/clip.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-export interface ClipEmbedding {
-    embedding: Float32Array;
-    model: "ggml-clip" | "onnx-clip";
-}
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/face.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/face.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index cac391994..000000000
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/face.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/// [`x`] and [y] are the coordinates of the top left corner of the box, so the minimim values
-/// [width] and [height] are the width and height of the box.
-/// All values are in absolute pixels relative to the original image size.
-export interface CenterBox {
-    x: number;
-    y: number;
-    height: number;
-    width: number;
-}
-
-export interface Point {
-    x: number;
-    y: number;
-}
-
-export interface Detection {
-    box: CenterBox;
-    landmarks: Point[];
-}
-
-export interface Face {
-    id: string;
-    confidence: number;
-    blur: number;
-    embedding: Float32Array;
-    detection: Detection;
-}
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/fileML.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/fileML.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7835450e7..000000000
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/data/fileML.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-import { ClipEmbedding } from "./clip";
-import { Face } from "./face";
-
-export interface FileML {
-    fileID: number;
-    clip?: ClipEmbedding;
-    faces: Face[];
-    height: number;
-    width: number;
-    version: number;
-    error?: string;
-}
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/ui.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/ui.ts
index cd9f63f18..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/ui.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/types/machineLearning/ui.ts
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-export interface IndexStatus {
-    outOfSyncFilesExists: boolean;
-    nSyncedFiles: number;
-    nTotalFiles: number;
-    localFilesSynced: boolean;
-    peopleIndexSynced: boolean;
-}
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
index cf50f4a06..7cff13298 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import { FILE_TYPE } from "@/media/file-type";
 import { City } from "services/locationSearchService";
+import { Person } from "services/ml/types";
 import { LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { Person } from "types/machineLearning";
-import { IndexStatus } from "types/machineLearning/ui";
+import { IndexStatus } from "utils/storage/mlIDbStorage";
 
 export enum SuggestionType {
     DATE = "DATE",
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/image/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/image/index.ts
index e4884716c..38fe248c8 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/image/index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/image/index.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 // these utils only work in env where OffscreenCanvas is available
 
 import { Matrix, inverse } from "ml-matrix";
+import { FaceAlignment } from "services/ml/types";
 import { BlobOptions, Dimensions } from "types/image";
-import { FaceAlignment } from "types/machineLearning";
 import { enlargeBox } from "utils/machineLearning";
 import { Box } from "../../../thirdparty/face-api/classes";
 
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/config.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/config.ts
index 0c25356ab..f47a96b05 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/config.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/config.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ import {
     DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_CONFIG,
     DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_JOB_CONFIG,
 } from "constants/mlConfig";
+import { MLSearchConfig, MLSyncConfig } from "services/ml/types";
 import { JobConfig } from "types/common/job";
-import { MLSearchConfig, MLSyncConfig } from "types/machineLearning";
 import mlIDbStorage, {
     ML_SEARCH_CONFIG_NAME,
     ML_SYNC_CONFIG_NAME,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceAlign.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceAlign.ts
index beb98cea9..620d3fff3 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceAlign.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceAlign.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Matrix } from "ml-matrix";
+import { FaceAlignment, FaceDetection } from "services/ml/types";
 import { getSimilarityTransformation } from "similarity-transformation";
-import { FaceAlignment, FaceDetection } from "types/machineLearning";
 import { Point } from "../../../thirdparty/face-api/classes";
 
 const ARCFACE_LANDMARKS = [
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceCrop.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceCrop.ts
index d437a942d..ef87f9f17 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceCrop.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/faceCrop.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { FaceAlignment, FaceCrop, FaceCropConfig } from "types/machineLearning";
+import { FaceAlignment, FaceCrop, FaceCropConfig } from "services/ml/types";
 import { cropWithRotation } from "utils/image";
 import { enlargeBox } from ".";
 import { Box } from "../../../thirdparty/face-api/classes";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/index.ts
index bc9ae3974..f2186399b 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/index.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import log from "@/next/log";
 import PQueue from "p-queue";
 import DownloadManager from "services/download";
 import { getLocalFiles } from "services/fileService";
-import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { Dimensions } from "types/image";
 import {
     DetectedFace,
     Face,
@@ -13,7 +11,9 @@ import {
     MlFileData,
     Person,
     Versioned,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
+} from "services/ml/types";
+import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
+import { Dimensions } from "types/image";
 import { getRenderableImage } from "utils/file";
 import { clamp, warpAffineFloat32List } from "utils/image";
 import mlIDbStorage from "utils/storage/mlIDbStorage";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/mldataMappers.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/mldataMappers.ts
index fb91420aa..111644821 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/mldataMappers.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/machineLearning/mldataMappers.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import {
+    ClipEmbedding,
     Face,
     FaceDetection,
     Landmark,
     MlFileData,
-} from "types/machineLearning";
-import { ClipEmbedding } from "types/machineLearning/data/clip";
+} from "services/ml/types";
 
 export interface FileML extends ServerFileMl {
     updatedAt: number;
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/storage/mlIDbStorage.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/storage/mlIDbStorage.ts
index 766c3ac9a..c90832df3 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/storage/mlIDbStorage.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/storage/mlIDbStorage.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,15 @@ import {
     openDB,
 } from "idb";
 import isElectron from "is-electron";
-import { Face, MLLibraryData, MlFileData, Person } from "types/machineLearning";
-import { IndexStatus } from "types/machineLearning/ui";
+import { Face, MLLibraryData, MlFileData, Person } from "services/ml/types";
+
+export interface IndexStatus {
+    outOfSyncFilesExists: boolean;
+    nSyncedFiles: number;
+    nTotalFiles: number;
+    localFilesSynced: boolean;
+    peopleIndexSynced: boolean;
+}
 
 interface Config {}
 
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/worker/ml.worker.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/worker/ml.worker.ts
index ed46b7bd4..aa650d4af 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/worker/ml.worker.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/worker/ml.worker.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import log from "@/next/log";
 import { expose } from "comlink";
 import mlService from "services/machineLearning/machineLearningService";
+import { MachineLearningWorker } from "services/ml/types";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
-import { MachineLearningWorker } from "types/machineLearning";
 
 export class DedicatedMLWorker implements MachineLearningWorker {
     constructor() {