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DQShield: Reproducibility Artefact

2026Open accessLead City University

In plain language

DQShield provides an executable procedure designed to test whether a data-quality safeguard ought to be kept for a given fault and prediction contract. This artefact release includes the full implementation, a machine-readable assurance schema, frozen configurations, test scripts, and run-level evidence alongside policy sensitivity records. The procedure was evaluated across experiments involving simultaneous data-quality faults, temporally ordered tasks, regression problems, and subgroup diagnostics. It was also assessed using a high-dimensional software vulnerability dataset, relying on external public distributions referenced by source and checksum.

Key takeaways

  • DQShield functions as an executable procedure to evaluate the retention of data-quality safeguards under specific faults and prediction contracts.
  • The release provides an assurance schema, frozen configurations, policy sensitivity records, and reproducible rerun scripts.
  • Validation experiments evaluate simultaneous data-quality faults, regression tasks, temporally ordered data, and subgroup diagnostics.
  • The artefact has been applied to test safeguards on a high-dimensional software vulnerability dataset.

Why it matters

Data errors can degrade predictive models, making safeguards essential for reliable operation. This work provides a concrete, reproducible method and assurance schema for assessing whether specific quality defences truly remain beneficial under diverse fault conditions and across different types of prediction tasks.

Commercialisation angle

This procedure could be used by software engineers and machine learning practitioners who need to validate data-quality defences before deploying models into production. The artefact appears applied and tested within experimental settings, including high-dimensional vulnerability datasets, though further adaptation would be required to integrate it into commercial software development pipelines.

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Abstract

DQShield is an executable procedure for testing whether a data-quality safeguard should be retained for a specified fault and prediction contract. This release contains the implementation, machine-readable assurance schema, frozen configurations, run-level evidence, policy sensitivity records, tests and rerun scripts used to inspect the procedure. The accompanying validation experiments cover simultaneous data-quality faults, regression and temporally ordered tasks, subgroup diagnostics and a high-dimensional software vulnerability dataset. Third-party datasets are loaded from their public distributions or identified by source and checksum rather than redistributed.

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22542792

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