Model Risk Management (MRM): Five Critical Human Interventions for ML Model Evaluations Decision scientists should consider five critical aspects when evaluating ML models of MRM projects. i: ML-based feature reduction approaches are not always suitable for business strategy development. ii: Use of macroeconomic, policy, and shock variables in ML model as "Control Vars." iii: Less important features within multilevel modeling framework may be critical to increase model performance in production. iv: Detrending is critical when seasonal anomalies create a linear trend in time-series data. v: Use of statistical and ML-based models simultaneously to avoid modeling failures.