Model Governance

Kind: activity

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:model-governance

Severity: contextual

Scope: model lifecycle, model-backed system

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of registering, evaluating and approving each model version before it is deployed.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Machine Learning Architecture and before Model Evaluation.

Requires

• Model Registry
• Evaluation
• Approval Policy

Reinforces

• Compliance
• Model Safety

Enables

• Controlled Model Deployment

Conflicts with

• Unapproved Model Deployment
• Model Version Ambiguity

In tension with

• Experiment Velocity

Tensions

• Model Governance / Experiment Velocity

Violated by

• Unapproved Model Deployment

Refactored by

• Registry Pattern
• Evaluation Suite

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Model Architecture

Required by

• Artificial Intelligence Architecture

Reinforced by

• Machine Learning Architecture
• Model Drift Monitoring

Linked from

• Systems built around a model
• Anti-patterns
• Model Architecture
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Core Vocabulary
• Model Architecture
• Severity levels
• The resolutions