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š§ We just released Darwin-27B-ZTC, a judgment engine that reaches a verdict without generating anything.
Most LLMs answer by generating, decoding one token at a time. Darwin-27B-ZTC takes a different route.
āļø How it works
š¹ It makes its call in a single forward pass.
š¹ Zero generated tokens, and no decoding loop.
š¹ That keeps latency and cost far below what a generative model needs.
šÆ What it judges
š¹ It handles several question types: free-form correctness (noul), multiple choice (choice), and scoring (score).
š¹ For each one it hands back a calibrated confidence, not just an answer.
š How well calibrated (measured)
š¹ KL 0.204, Brier 0.097, so the confidence it reports lines up with what actually happens.
š¹ 0.743 accuracy (zero-shot, general split), across 2,000 judgments with zero errors.
š¹ By type: noul 0.847, choice 0.723, score 0.675.
š¹ None of the benchmark's train split went into it. It is pure zero-shot.
š Where it fits
š¹ Grading at scale, model routing, safety gating, anywhere you want a fast decision without paying for generation.
š It currently sits at #1 on the official typed-decisions leaderboard on Hugging Face (0.743 accuracy, zero-shot).
š Links
Model: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-27B-ZTC
Leaderboard: LocalLLaMA/typed-decisions
Curious to hear what you make of the single-pass, no-generation approach. š
Most LLMs answer by generating, decoding one token at a time. Darwin-27B-ZTC takes a different route.
āļø How it works
š¹ It makes its call in a single forward pass.
š¹ Zero generated tokens, and no decoding loop.
š¹ That keeps latency and cost far below what a generative model needs.
šÆ What it judges
š¹ It handles several question types: free-form correctness (noul), multiple choice (choice), and scoring (score).
š¹ For each one it hands back a calibrated confidence, not just an answer.
š How well calibrated (measured)
š¹ KL 0.204, Brier 0.097, so the confidence it reports lines up with what actually happens.
š¹ 0.743 accuracy (zero-shot, general split), across 2,000 judgments with zero errors.
š¹ By type: noul 0.847, choice 0.723, score 0.675.
š¹ None of the benchmark's train split went into it. It is pure zero-shot.
š Where it fits
š¹ Grading at scale, model routing, safety gating, anywhere you want a fast decision without paying for generation.
š It currently sits at #1 on the official typed-decisions leaderboard on Hugging Face (0.743 accuracy, zero-shot).
š Links
Model: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-27B-ZTC
Leaderboard: LocalLLaMA/typed-decisions
Curious to hear what you make of the single-pass, no-generation approach. š
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