DASF-R-5.1 — Lack of tracking and reproducibility of experiments

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 23. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

ML development is often poorly documented and tracked, and results that cannot be reproduced may lead to overconfidence in an ML system’s performance. Common issues include: Critical details missing from a model’s description

Results that are fragile, producing dramatically different results on a different GPU (even one that is supposed to be spec-identical)

Extensive tweaks to the authors’ system until it outperforms the untweaked “baseline,” resulting in asserted improvements that aren’t borne out in practice (particularly common in academic work)

Additionally, adversaries may gain initial access to a system by compromising the unique portions of the ML supply chain. This could include the model itself, training data or its annotations, parts of the ML software stack, or even GPU hardware. In some instances, the attacker will need secondary access to fully carry out an attack using compromised supply chain components.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Overconfidence in ML Systems • Fragile and Differening Results when ML Systems are run on different GPU Hardware • Regulatory non-compliance

Business:

• Financial Loss • Response Costs • Customer Retention • Regulatory Fines and Judgement

Controls

• DASF-20 — Track ML training runs
• DASF-42 — Employ data-centric MLOps and LLMOps
• DASF-55 — Monitor audit logs

Source control guidance

• DASF 20: Track ML training runs for documenting, measuring, versioning and tracking model artifacts including algorithms, training environment, hyperparameters, metrics and results • DASF 42: Data-centric MLOps and LLMOps promote models as code and automate ML tasks for cross-environment reproducibility • DASF 55: Monitor audit logs to track access to data, AI and other resources

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-5.1. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

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• Component 5
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