| --- |
| license: other |
| license_name: machinepulse-community |
| license_link: https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-9B/blob/main/LICENSE |
| library_name: transformers |
| base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B |
| base_model_relation: finetune |
| pipeline_tag: text-classification |
| tags: |
| - decision-model |
| - decision-index |
| - system-one |
| - qwen3_5 |
| --- |
| |
| # Karpo Decision 9B |
|
|
| <p> |
| <a href="https://github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision"><img alt="GitHub" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-machinepulse--ai%2Fkarpo--decision-181717?style=flat-square&logo=github&logoColor=white"></a> |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-31B"><img alt="Karpo Decision 31B: Decision Index #1" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Karpo_Decision_31B-Decision_Index_%231-FFD21E?style=flat-square"></a> |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-9B/blob/main/LICENSE"><img alt="License: MachinePulse Community License" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MachinePulse_Community-4b5563?style=flat-square"></a> |
| </p> |
|
|
| 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 [Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B), with a linear readout over |
| the options. |
|
|
| - **Parameters:** 8.4B in bf16, plus a 255 × 4,096 readout in fp32 |
| - **Questions:** `choice` (up to 255 options), `noul` (true or false), `score` (a level on a scale) |
| - **Inputs:** text or JSON, and a screenshot at `state.viewport_screenshot` |
| - **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 |
|
|
| <img src="assets/karpo-decision-family.png" alt="Score vs. size: Karpo Decision 0.8B to 31B on the Decision Index 0.3 public suite, with the other board models of each size class" width="100%"> |
|
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| *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](https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-12B) | Gemma 4 12B | 12.0B | |
| | **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 readout point that ends each |
| question, 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 each question again with its options and a readout point. |
| - **Hybrid attention.** The full-attention layers read the whole sequence in both directions; the linear-attention |
| layers read it in order, so the questions come before the state. |
|
|
| The question-list-first layout follows [FlexDM](https://github.com/1000luca/FlexDM) and |
| [jev-brain](https://github.com/wcole3/jev-brain). |
|
|
| ## Use |
|
|
| Inference code: [github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision](https://github.com/machinepulse-ai/karpo-decision), with the `qwen` extra. Python 3.12 or later and one GPU; the weights |
| take 16.8 GB, long requests more. Loading the checkpoint as a plain chat model does not reproduce its answers. |
|
|
| ```bash |
| pip install "karpo-decision[qwen] @ 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-9B") |
| 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": <key>, "probabilities": {<key>: p, ...}, "confidence": c}} |
| ``` |
|
|
| A screenshot goes in the state at `viewport_screenshot`, as `{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/jpeg;base64,..."}}`. |
|
|
| HTTP server (`POST /v1/systemone`, `GET /healthz`): |
|
|
| ```bash |
| CKPT=$(python -c 'from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; print(snapshot_download("MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-9B"))') |
| 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-9B |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Lineage |
|
|
| [Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base) → [Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) |
| → **karpo-decision-9B** (fine-tuned) |
|
|
| ## Limitations |
|
|
| - Images: a screenshot is read through the base model's vision tower; image inputs were not evaluated. |
| - 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-9B is a modified version of [Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) ([Apache-2.0](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B/blob/main/LICENSE)): |
| decoder weights fine-tuned, readout added. Qwen3.5 stays under its own licence, a copy of which is in [licenses/Qwen3.5-LICENSE](licenses/Qwen3.5-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) |
|
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| with a link to <https://huggingface.co/MachinePulseAI/karpo-decision-9B> where the medium allows one. |
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