What is the value of lineage in model governance?
Why C is the answer
It shows who published a model, and from what data
Microsoft lists logging lineage for governance, such as who published a model.
In detail
- Lineage shows who published a model, and from what data.
- That is the basis of audit.
- Lineage matters most in regulated work.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
An auditor asks where a model came from. Lineage shows who published it, and from which data and job.
See it in different ways
stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> Trained Trained --> Registered: version and lineage Registered --> Deployed Deployed --> Monitored Monitored --> Retrained: drift alert Retrained --> Registered Deployed --> Archived: replaced
flowchart LR S0["Deployed model"] --> S1["Registered version"] --> S2["Training job"] --> S3["Data asset"]
Key point: Lineage shows who published what, from which data.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. It raises the accuracy of the model automatically
- It does not change accuracy.
- B. It stops other teams from using the same data
- It does not stop others using data.
- D. It reduces the model's size on disk after training
- It does not change model size.