---
license: other
license_name: machinepulse-community
license_link: https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-12B/blob/main/LICENSE
library_name: transformers
base_model: google/gemma-4-12B-it
base_model_relation: finetune
pipeline_tag: text-classification
tags:
- decision-model
- decision-index
- system-one
- gemma4
---
# Karpo Decision 12B
A decision model of the Karpo Decision family: given a state (a web page, a document, a conversation: any text or
JSON) and typed questions about it, it returns a probability for every option of every question in one forward pass,
without generating text. Fine-tuned from [google/gemma-4-12B-it](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it), with a linear readout over
the options.
- **Parameters:** 12.0B in bf16, plus a 255 × 3,840 readout in fp32
- **Questions:** `choice` (up to 255 options), `noul` (true or false), `score` (a level on a scale)
- **Context:** 32,768 tokens per sequence; a longer request is split by questions, each part with the full state
- **Interfaces:** a Python API and an HTTP server in the System One format (`POST /v1/systemone`)
- **Licence:** [MachinePulse Community License](LICENSE): commercial use is allowed; commercial products and services
offered to third parties must show "Powered by karpo-decision (MachinePulse)"; production use for commercial
purposes by an entity whose annual revenue, with its affiliates, exceeds US$10M needs a commercial agreement
## The Karpo Decision family
*Score vs. size on the Decision Index 0.3 public suite, board of 12 November 2026.*
| Model | Base | Parameters |
|---|---|---|
| [karpo-decision-31B](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-31B) | Gemma 4 31B | 31.3B |
| **karpo-decision-12B** | Gemma 4 12B | 12.0B |
| [karpo-decision-9B](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-9B) | Qwen3.5 9B | 8.4B |
| [karpo-decision-4B](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-4B) | Qwen3.5 4B | 4.5B |
| [karpo-decision-2B](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-2B) | Qwen3.5 2B | 2.2B |
| [karpo-decision-0.8B](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-0.8B) | Qwen3.5 0.8B | 0.85B |
The family's largest model, [karpo-decision-31B](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-31B), is ranked #1 on the
[Decision Index](https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/jev-decision-index), with the highest Full score, 73.9, on
the maintainers' private tests (edition 0.4.1, board of 12 November 2026, 300 entries); its public index is 75.0.
## How it works
- **A readout, not generation.** Every option is labelled with an option code. At the `Answer: (` slot that ends a
question's branch, a linear readout scores 255 option codes and a softmax over the question's own options gives the
probabilities. Nothing is decoded, so the answer is always one of the options.
- **Many questions, one forward pass.** A request is one state and any number of questions, encoded as one sequence:
the list of questions, the state, then one branch per question with its options.
- **Branch attention.** A branch reads the shared block (questions and state) and itself, never another branch. The
state is computed once per sequence, and no question sees another question's options.
The question-list-first layout follows [FlexDM](https://github.com/1000luca/FlexDM) and
[jev-brain](https://github.com/wcole3/jev-brain); the shared-block and branch rule follows
[Sieve-31B-v3](https://huggingface.co/sthanika-ai/Sieve-31B-v3).
## Use
Inference code: [github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision](https://github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision). Python 3.12 or later and one GPU; the weights
take 23.9 GB, long requests more. Loading the checkpoint as a plain chat model does not reproduce its answers.
```bash
pip install "karpo-decision @ git+https://github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision"
```
```python
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
from karpo_decision.decider import Decider
path = snapshot_download("MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-12B")
decider = Decider.from_pretrained(path, device="cuda")
response = decider.decide({
"state": "Order 1182: the customer asks to return a blender bought 45 days ago. Policy: returns within 30 days.",
"questions": {
"eligible": {"type": "noul", "instructions": "Is the return eligible under the policy?"},
"action": {"type": "choice", "instructions": "What should the agent do?",
"criteria": {"refund": "Issue a full refund", "decline": "Politely decline the return",
"escalate": "Escalate to a supervisor"}},
},
})
print(response["answers"])
# {"eligible": {"type": "noul", "noul": P(true)},
# "action": {"type": "choice", "choice": , "probabilities": {: p, ...}, "confidence": c}}
```
HTTP server (`POST /v1/systemone`, `GET /healthz`):
```bash
CKPT=$(python -c 'from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; print(snapshot_download("MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-12B"))')
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node 1 -m karpo_decision.serve.server --checkpoint "$CKPT" --port 18440
```
[Decision Index](https://github.com/apolinario/decision-index) kit, installed separately:
```bash
pip install "decision-index @ git+https://github.com/apolinario/decision-index"
python -m decision_index run --engine karpo_decision.serve.engine:DecisionIndexEngine \
--option checkpoint="$CKPT" --out runs/karpo-decision-12B
```
## Lineage
[google/gemma-4-12B](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B) → [google/gemma-4-12B-it](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it)
→ **karpo-decision-12B** (fine-tuned)
## Limitations
- Text only: the vision and audio embedders are in the checkpoint but unused.
- Not a chat or text-generation model; generation was not evaluated.
- A question that does not fit in 32,768 tokens with its state is refused, never truncated.
- It always picks one of the given options.
## Licence
The weights and model files are licensed under the [MachinePulse Community License](LICENSE); this summary is for
convenience and the LICENSE governs. Commercial use is allowed. Commercial products and services offered to third
parties, paid or free, must carry the attribution below; internal use and internal tools, evaluation, testing,
benchmarking, research, and pilots of up to 90 days that serve no paying customers need none. Production use for
commercial purposes by an entity whose annual revenue, with its affiliates, exceeds US$10M needs a separate commercial
agreement: write to contact@machinepulse.ai with the subject line "Karpo Decision licensing: commercial agreement
request". Models fine-tuned, merged, quantized, pruned or distilled from these weights stay under the same licence;
a model trained only on this model's outputs does not.
karpo-decision-12B is a modified version of [google/gemma-4-12B-it](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it) ([Apache-2.0](https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/gemma_4_license)):
decoder weights fine-tuned, readout added. Gemma 4
stays under its own licence, a copy of which is in [licenses/Gemma-4-LICENSE](licenses/Gemma-4-LICENSE); see [NOTICE](NOTICE).
The inference code ([github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision](https://github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision)) is licensed under Apache-2.0.
### Attribution
Commercial products and services offered to third parties that use this model or a derivative must show, on a related
website, user interface, about page or product documentation:
> Powered by karpo-decision (MachinePulse)
with a link to where the medium allows one.