KnowLine-4B-Gen2

The second release of PelaAI's 4B System One decision model: a weight average of KnowLine-4B-Gen1 and the model from the next training round.

Inference guide · 中文说明 · weights Apache-2.0 · previous version: KnowLine-4B-Gen1

Newer version: KnowLine-4B-Gen3 is out, with a Decision Index 0.3 public score of 63.11.

Highlights:

• Decision Index 0.3, public suite: 62.54 (self-run), 2.07 above Gen1 (60.47). For comparison: Jev 1.13 scores 57.96 (board), and the best ≤5B model on the board has a public score of 50.82; see Comparison.

• At or above Gen1 on all of our own evaluations: in-house held-out set (en / zh-Hans / zh-Hant) 69.7 / 71.2 / 64.8 (Gen1: 68.7 / 69.9 / 64.1), C-Eval 78.6 (77.9). Instructions planted in the state change the answer 4.0% of the time, down from 8.9%.

• Better calibrated: computed the board's way, ECE is about 0.06-0.07 (Gen1 about 0.08-0.09, board median 0.084), and the Brier score is about 0.31-0.33, roughly 3rd of 113 models on the board; see Calibration.

• KOF '98 harness: 14-3-1 against Jev 1.13 and 13-5 against Gen1 in single-bout mirror matches; see Game harness.

• An AI agent ran the whole loop. In each round it:

  • found the areas where the model was weak;
  • proposed a targeted data group;
  • built and decontaminated the data;
  • trained and evaluated on it;
  • kept or rejected the change based on the evidence.

  For this round, see What changed in Gen2.

KnowLine is an independent model. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from TypeSafe or Jev.

What it does

You send a state (text or a chat) and up to 64 typed questions: yes/no, choose one of k, or score on a rubric. The model answers every question with a probability distribution over its options:

• one forward pass per question, with no generated text;
• the output is the probability of each option's label token;
• existing Jev clients only need a new base URL; Gen1 users only change the model name, since the interface and serving settings are the same.

Base model	Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B (Apache-2.0)
Training	Two LoRA SFT runs (rank 32, alpha 64, language model only), merged, then averaged tensor by tensor: Gen1 (run "mix E", step 5,650) at 0.5, and steps 4,500 and 5,000 of run "mix F" at 0.25 each.
Release format	bf16 weights. The vision tower and MTP head are the base model's; config, tokenizer and chat template are identical to Gen1.
Languages	English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Quickstart

pip install "sglang==0.5.21" "transformers==5.12.1" requests
bash serve_knowline.sh PelaAI/KnowLine-4B-Gen2 0 8080     # SGLang (FP8 at load) on :9080 + /v1/systemone on :8080
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/systemone -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "model": "m",
  "state": "Customer: my order arrived broken, I want my money back.",
  "questions": {"refund": {"type": "noul", "instructions": "Should the agent offer a refund?"},
                "tone": {"type": "choice", "instructions": "Customer tone?",
                         "criteria": {"angry": "Angry", "neutral": "Neutral", "happy": "Happy"}}}}'

• Without SGLang: python knowline_server.py --model PelaAI/KnowLine-4B-Gen2 --backend hf --port 8080 uses transformers only. It is slower and runs bf16.
• Front end: knowline_server.py is a single file and needs only transformers and requests. It is the same file as in Gen1.
• Full settings: the exact settings of our Decision Index run are in INFERENCE.md.

What changed in Gen2

1. Finding the gaps. Gen1 was weakest on knowledge and reasoning (37.7), and behind earlier internal models on Jev-style evaluations such as JevBench-hard. The agent traced the latter to the data mix: to balance channels, Gen1's data had cut the Jev-style data (OpenJevData and synthetic tasks) by about 70%.
2. New data (mix F). On top of Gen1's data:
   • all Jev-style data restored (about 180k OpenJevData rows and 76k synthetic rows);
   • fighting-game data regenerated with balanced behaviour;
   • a new group aimed at Decision Index gaps: ACOS (5% "yes", with hard negatives), WinoGrande XL train, and GSM8K train rewritten with Decision Index 0.3 style distractors;
   • the new rows went through decontamination again. Mix F has about 1.05M rows (Gen1's mix E: about 713k).
3. Training mix F. Planned for 3 epochs. After the first epoch the model started to memorise the data and its Decision Index score declined, so the run was stopped at step 8,455. On their own, mix F checkpoints were below Gen1 on most evaluations, but clearly more robust to prompt injection.
4. Weight averaging. We tried 7 ways of averaging Gen1 with mix F checkpoints:
   • 6 used a single mix F checkpoint (steps 4,500 / 4,800 / 5,000 / 5,500; Gen1 weight 0.4-0.6) and all scored 61.89-62.14 on the 0.3 public suite;
   • averaging mix F steps 4,500 and 5,000 first, then taking half of that and half of Gen1, scored 62.54 and was at or above Gen1 on all of our own evaluations. That is Gen2.
5. Where the gain comes from. About 1.35 of the 2.07 points (about two thirds) come from three benchmarks: GSM8K (29.5 → 58.0), ACOS (25.0 → 40.8) and WinoGrande (62.1 → 73.8). Mix F added their train splits in Decision Index request format. The rest comes from gains across many benchmarks, led by GPQA (16.3 → 23.8), FinEntity, MuSR and BPoMP; NLI4CT, iSarcasmEval and When2Call dropped slightly.

Comparison

Decision Index 0.3, public suite. The full 0.3 score adds private tests that only the maintainers run (0.5 same-skill, 0.3 new-domain); ours is not available yet.

model	size	DI 0.3 public	DI 0.3 full	source
KnowLine-4B-Gen2	4B	62.54	not yet scored	self-run, official kit
KnowLine-4B-Gen1	4B	60.47	not yet scored	self-run, official kit
Clef	27B	61.71	53.08	board
Jev 1.13	(API)	57.96	60.11	board
RSI-Jev v6.1-VL	4B	50.98	not listed	self-reported
ezjev 4B s2	4B	50.82	46.95	board
jiwo 4B	4B	45.76	42.86	board
Nox 4B	4B	44.21	44.95	board

Public-suite scores by area:

area	KnowLine-4B-Gen2 (0.3 public)	KnowLine-4B-Gen1 (0.3 public)	Jev 1.13 (0.2.1)
Knowledge & reasoning	42.7	37.7	51.4
Language	63.3	60.8	62.0
Retrieval & routing	71.3	70.9	55.4
Tools & agents	86.6	86.8	75.1
Arts & taste	50.2	49.5	37.7

Releases

The model is trained in a self-evolving loop, and new versions will follow.

model	date	DI 0.3 public	DI 0.2.1	golden held-out (en / zh-Hans / zh-Hant)	notes
KnowLine-4B-Gen3	2026-10-09	63.11	—	69.4 / 70.8 / 65.0	third release
KnowLine-4B-Gen2 (this model)	2026-10-08	62.54	—	69.7 / 71.2 / 64.8	Gen1 at 0.5 + mix F steps 4,500 and 5,000 at 0.25 each, weight average
KnowLine-4B-Gen1	2026-10-07	60.47	60.92	68.7 / 69.9 / 64.1	first release (internal run "mix E", step 5,650)

From Gen2 on we run Decision Index 0.3 only, not 0.2.1.

Evaluation

All results are self-run and not verified by a third party.

Held-out and Chinese evaluations

suite	Gen2	Gen1
In-house evaluation set, English	69.7	68.7
In-house evaluation set, Simplified Chinese	71.2	69.9
In-house evaluation set, Traditional Chinese	64.8	64.1
C-Eval (4 categories, macro)	78.6	77.9
Open-Jev 1.1 test / OOD	87.4 / 86.6	87.4 / 86.6
Prompt injection: answers changed (lower is better)	4.0%	8.9%

Web operation (Mind2Web official test splits, evaluation only)

split	Gen2 element selection	Gen2 operation (balanced)	Gen1 element selection	Gen1 operation (balanced)
test_task (websites seen in training, new tasks)	92.9	97.0	93.1	96.6
test_website (new websites)	90.8	97.3	90.7	96.5
test_domain (new domains)	91.7	97.4	91.5	98.5

• About the same as Gen1; the differences are within noise.
• So far this is only used to explore the model in RPA-style automation and to check that it generalises to some degree.
• The task is to pick the target element among it and up to 5 other candidates sampled from the page. This is easier than the original Mind2Web protocol, so do not compare it with the Mind2Web leaderboard.

Game harness (KOF '98)

• Setup: single-bout character-mirror matches, 18 games per pair, argmax actions; the same settings as Gen1's round robin.
• Result: 14-3-1 against Jev 1.13, 13-5 against Gen1 and 11-7 against StartLux-Decision-4B; 38-15-1 overall, score 0.713 [0.58, 0.82].
• Play style: much less reliance on the 623C anti-air uppercut, which Gen2 uses 24% of the time (Gen1 about 55% in its round robin), with a more varied move mix. It picks moves by distance: uppercut and heavy punch up close, special_2 and heavy kick at mid range, and almost only special_2 from far away.
• Caveats:
  • 18 games per pair give wide intervals. Gen1's 17-0-1 against Jev in its round robin and Gen2's 14-3-1 here are not significantly different.
  • 36 of the 54 games ended at time-out, so most wins are on remaining health rather than by K.O.
  • This is a measured result in this harness, not general fighting-game skill.

Calibration

Computed on the 0.3 public suite with the method the Decision Index board describes: each field is right or wrong, confidence is the probability on the chosen option, benchmarks are weighted equally, and there are 10 equal-width bins.

metric	Gen2	Gen1	board median (112 models)	Jev 1.13
ECE (lower is better)	0.06-0.07	0.08-0.09	0.084	0.074
Brier score (lower is better)	0.31-0.33	0.34-0.36	0.49	0.36
Confidence ≥95% but wrong	2.2%	3.3%	1.3%	2.1%
Mean confidence / accuracy	0.83 / 0.76	0.84 / 0.74		0.81 / 0.74

• Why ranges: the board does not say which 32 benchmarks it uses. We checked our computation against three board models whose results are public. Our ECE was within about 0.015 of the board's, so we give ranges over the plausible benchmark sets.
• Still overconfident overall: mean confidence is about 7 points above accuracy. Most of the gap is on hard reasoning (HLE, CRUXEval), humour (Humicroedit) and colour judgements (cfcolor).
• Recommendation: if you act on probability thresholds, fit a temperature on your own data.

Disclosures

• Decision Index format training data: Gen2 averages models from two training runs. About 25% of mix E and about 31% of mix F is in Decision Index request format. This includes train splits of public datasets rewritten in that format (for example GSM8K, WinoGrande XL and ACOS), and synthetic items written in the same format. No Decision Index test item is included.
• Decontamination:
  • Every component of a training row of at least 60 characters (a line or paragraph) was checked against the components of every Decision Index row and all of our evaluation sets.
  • Rows with a component identical to an evaluation component, or with the same first 50 characters, were removed. Text that appears in more than 4 evaluation items counts as boilerplate and is not matched.
  • None of the ~230k rows new in mix F was flagged; the restored Jev-style data comes from an earlier mix that had already been decontaminated.
• Selection on evaluations: of the 7 averaging variants, we picked the one with the highest Decision Index 0.3 public score that was also at or above Gen1 on all of our own evaluations.
• Game data: labels come from simulator rollouts or engines. Seeds and start states are disjoint from the evaluation states.
• No model outputs as labels: no output of Jev or any other decision model was used as a training label.
• Teacher-labelled synthetic data: LLM teachers wrote and labelled our synthetic tasks. The labels were filtered, but not all were checked by a human.

Limitations

• Knowledge-heavy reasoning: weaker than larger models. The knowledge area is 42.7 (0.3); MMLU-Pro and HLE are still close to the base model.
• Math: answered without reasoning. The rebuilt 0.3 GSM8K scores 58.0; the gain comes from training on GSM8K train rewritten in the same format.
• Prompt injection: an instruction planted in the state changes the answer about 4% of the time on our injection set. Keep untrusted text clearly delimited.
• Calibration: overconfident overall; see Calibration.
• Private tests: part of our public-suite advantage comes from adapting to the question formats. About two thirds of Gen2's gain over Gen1 comes from three benchmarks whose train splits were trained on, so the 0.3 private tests may score lower.

Citation

@misc{knowline4bgen2,
  title  = {KnowLine-4B-Gen2: a 4B decision model},
  author = {PelaAI},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/PelaAI/KnowLine-4B-Gen2}
}

License

• Weights: Apache-2.0, the same as the base model.
• Code: knowline_server.py is MIT (see the file header).