Encyclopedia Evalica / Evaluation / Quality gate
Quality gate
/'kwah.luh.tee gayt/A check that blocks a deployment when eval scores drop below a defined threshold. Gates turn "quality" into an explicit release criterion. (noun)
“The quality gate prevented deployment because the new model underperformed on safety.”
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