What are retirement criteria in CPMAI model governance?

• A. Criteria for when to decommission or retire a model, such as sustained degradation, drift, or regulatory changes.
• B. Criteria to add more features to the model.
• C. Criteria to publish widely before validation.
• D. Criteria to retrain monthly regardless of drift.

Answer: (A)

Retirement criteria in CPMAI model governance define when a model should be decommissioned from production. They are triggers such as sustained degradation in performance, model drift (data or concept drift), or regulatory changes that require removing or replacing the model. Having these criteria ensures a controlled, safe ending of a model’s lifecycle, reduces risk, and supports compliance and traceability. Other options describe activities like adding features, publishing before validation, or retraining on a fixed schedule—things that pertain to updating or deploying the model, not deciding when to retire it.