Reliably detecting model failures in deployment without labels

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05047v2
• Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:57:42 GMT
• Title: Reliably detecting model failures in deployment without labels
• Authors: Viet Nguyen, Changjian Shui, Vijay Giri, Siddarth Arya, Amol Verma, Fahad Razak, Rahul G. Krishnan,
• Abstract summary: This paper formalizes and addresses the problem of post-deployment deterioration (PDD) monitoring.<n>We propose D3M, a practical and efficient monitoring algorithm based on the disagreement of predictive models.<n> Empirical results on both standard benchmark and a real-world large-scale internal medicine dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework.
• Score: 10.006585036887929
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The distribution of data changes over time; models operating operating in dynamic environments need retraining. But knowing when to retrain, without access to labels, is an open challenge since some, but not all shifts degrade model performance. This paper formalizes and addresses the problem of post-deployment deterioration (PDD) monitoring. We propose D3M, a practical and efficient monitoring algorithm based on the disagreement of predictive models, achieving low false positive rates under non-deteriorating shifts and provides sample complexity bounds for high true positive rates under deteriorating shifts. Empirical results on both standard benchmark and a real-world large-scale internal medicine dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework and highlight its viability as an alert mechanism for high-stakes machine learning pipelines.

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