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- 📄 paperMay 2026
Operational AI Deployment Assurance: Governance-State Orchestration Under Threshold-Sensitive Deployment Conditions
Khalid Adnan Alsayed
proposes a governance framework for deploying high-stakes ai systems that orchestrates deployment decisions based on fairness, transparency, and risk thresholds. teams building models for regulated domains or critical applications need this framework to ensure deployments meet governance requirements before going live.
- 📄 paperMay 2026
TimeGate: Sustainable Time-Boxed Promotion Gates for Continual ML Adaptation Under Resource Constraints
Abhijit Chakraborty, Suddhasvatta Das, Yash Shah +2
introduces a policy layer that manages retraining budgets—compute, annotation, energy—for continuously adapting ml systems, preventing runaway costs in production. practitioners operating models that drift over time can use this approach to make principled decisions about when and how often to retrain.
- 📄 paperMay 2026
The role of explainability throughout the MLOps lifecycle: review and research agenda
Matthias Wagner, Per Runeson
reviews how explainability should be embedded across all mlops stages—not just as a post-hoc audit tool—to support debugging, monitoring, and stakeholder trust. practitioners will learn where to prioritize interpretability investments and how to integrate explanation techniques into continuous deployment workflows.
- 📄 paperFeb 2026
Rigorous Viability Assessment of Machine Learning Projects
provides a structured methodology for evaluating whether an ml project is actually viable before investing heavily in development, using predictive maintenance as a case study. teams can use this framework to avoid costly failures by assessing feasibility, data quality, and business alignment upfront.
- 📄 paperFeb 2026
SecMLOps: A comprehensive framework for integrating security throughout the machine learning operations lifecycle
proposes systematic integration of security controls across all mlops stages—from data handling through model serving—rather than treating it as an afterthought. teams deploying models in regulated or sensitive domains need this framework to identify and address vulnerabilities early in the pipeline.
- 📄 paperFeb 2026
A serverless automated MLOps framework for scalable industrial predictive maintenance
describes a serverless mlops architecture designed for predictive maintenance at scale, automating the full pipeline from data ingestion to model deployment. practitioners working on industrial iot systems will find concrete patterns for reducing infrastructure overhead while maintaining reliability in continuous monitoring scenarios.
- 📄 paperJan 2026
A Systematic Review of MLOps Tools: Tool Adoption, Lifecycle Coverage, and Critical Insights
Zakkarija Micallef, Keerthiga Rajenthiram, Ilias Gerostathopoulos
systematically evaluates mlops tools across the full lifecycle to identify coverage gaps and adoption patterns in practice. teams evaluating tool stacks will find concrete guidance on which tools address which lifecycle stages and where integration challenges typically emerge.
- 📄 paperJan 2026
Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning in Production: An Overview of the Robustness in MLOps Approach
surveys robustness practices across the mlops lifecycle to ensure ml systems make reliable decisions in production. practitioners will benefit from understanding how to systematically test for adversarial inputs, distribution shift, and other failure modes before models reach users.