Model Drift

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Definition

Degradation of an AI model's performance over time as real-world conditions change from what it was trained on. Like skills becoming outdated as the world changes.

Real-World Example

A fraud detection model experiences drift as scammers develop new tactics that weren't in the training data, requiring periodic retraining.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

All four clouds provide managed monitoring to detect drift (data/feature drift and/or prediction/performance drift), alert on changes, and support retraining workflows. Capabilities differ by metric depth, supported data types, and how easily you can connect monitoring outputs to pipelines for retraining.

AWS
Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor
AZ
Azure Machine Learning data drift (dataset monitoring) and model monitoring
GCP
Vertex AI Model Monitoring
OCI
OCI Data Science Model Monitoring

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