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How do you decide when to roll back a deployed model, and how do you do it safely?

A bad model in production needs a fast, safe rollback, but ML rollback is trickier than code: the model is data and the truth signal lags. The signal is pre-defined criteria plus a previous version kept warm. Here is the answer.

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A bad model in production needs a fast, safe rollback, but ML rollback is trickier than code: the model is data and the truth signal lags. The signal is pre-defined criteria plus a previous version kept warm. Here is the answer.

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