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The proposed model uses Pareto optimization to balance accuracy and computation time, and data preprocessing techniques to address the issue of masked faces. The evaluation results demonstrate that the model achieves high accuracy on both masked and unmasked faces, outperforming existing models in the literature. The findings of this study have implications for improving the performance of face recognition systems in real-world scenarios where mask-wearing is prevalent. The results of this study show that the Pareto optimization allowed improving the overall accuracy over the 94% achieved by the original FaceNet variant, which also performed similarly to the ArcFace model during testing. 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