# Short intervals on old cards after optimizing FSRS parameters

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**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/short-intervals-on-old-cards-after-optimizing-fsrs-parameters/40586 "2024-01-31T19:26:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![otis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@otis](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/otis)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/short-intervals-on-old-cards-after-optimizing-fsrs-parameters/40586/1 "2024-01-31T19:26:17Z")

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After optimizing the parameters for one of my decks, intervals for cards that are quite mature are dramatically shortened. Even answering good on the example below gives an 11-month interval, much shorter than previous intervals, which have all ended in correct answers.

 ![Captura de Pantalla 2024-01-31 a las 20.00.09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/4/4/4468fff07de9e78b9d75dc6268364d8162d14fea.png)

Desired retention is at 0.9.

These are the loss values before and after optimizing:  
Before - Log loss: 0.3111, RMSE(bins): 6.24%  
After - Log loss: 0.2863, RMSE(bins): 6.11%

Parameters: 1.5584, 1.6469, 1.7892, 7.9731, 5.0694, 1.7857, 0.3446, 0.0708, 1.6345, 0.5662, 0.9375, 2.4600, 0.0472, 0.5202, 1.2308, 0.0953, 3.9999

With these results, optimizing the parameters seems to make little sense, as cards that I remember well would be repeated too often.

I wonder if it might be caused by an irregular review history. Is it currently possible to limit the review history that FSRS uses to optimize its parameters to more recent history? This would also be convenient in case of a change in behaviour (related to the buttons, for example).

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**Author:** ![L.M.Sherlock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/l.m.sherlock/32/16770_2.png) [@L.M.Sherlock](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/L.M.Sherlock)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/short-intervals-on-old-cards-after-optimizing-fsrs-parameters/40586/2 "2024-02-01T09:41:46Z")

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What’s your real retention of mature cards? If it is lower than 90%, it’s common that the interval is shortened.

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**Author:** ![sprvlcn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sprvlcn](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sprvlcn)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/short-intervals-on-old-cards-after-optimizing-fsrs-parameters/40586/3 "2024-02-01T15:55:41Z")

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In the deck options under Advanced, did you set a “Maximum interval” value?

2.79 years is about 1020 days.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/short-intervals-on-old-cards-after-optimizing-fsrs-parameters/40586/4 "2024-03-02T15:56:10Z")

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