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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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model drift

/ˈmɒdəl drɪft/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The model did not change. The world did, and no one was watching the gap.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Degradation of a deployed model's accuracy as live data diverges from the data it was trained on.

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See also
  • concept driftThe thing being measured moved; the dashboard, helpfully, stayed green.
  • inferenceThe part priced per call, unlike the definitions it relies on, which are free and missing.
  • label driftDefinition drift, now with a confidence interval.
  • model monitoringA panel that shows the model is healthy by reporting every signal except whether it is still right.