arXiv Computation and Language

Intern-Decision: Efficient Multimodal Decision Making with Autoregressive Masked Language Modeling

Intern-Decision is a family of multimodal decision models (0.8B, 2B, and 4B parameters) that output structured choices and candidate probabilities directly from text and optional images, avoiding the latency of free‑form responses. The models use an autoregressive masked language modeling objective, placing one decision placeholder per field in a complete assistant JSON skeleton, and evaluate all fields in a single causal forward pass. The 4B variant achieves 90.02 % unweighted average accuracy across seven evaluation suites, with a mean latency of 44.16 ms on an RTX 4090 for a 289‑token request, and shows improved calibration and accuracy when combined with temperature scaling and confidence‑based handoff.

arXiv AI
1d ago

System1-Arena: Which Decisions Can Be Left to System 1?

System1-Arena is a benchmark that evaluates which decisions can be handled by System‑1 models—those that output probabilities in a single forward pass—versus System‑2 models that generate reasoning steps. It contains 92,000 questions across 105 tasks from 268 public sources, grouped into text classification, applied decisions, evaluation and control, and agent/action, and also includes 138 closed‑loop environments such as web shopping, coding control, robotics, games, and driving. The study tests 30 models, showing that large System‑1 models can match or exceed fast closed LLMs in non‑agentic accuracy with better‑calibrated probabilities at lower latency, while reasoning LLMs are most accurate but far more expensive, and large open LLMs perform best in closed‑loop settings.

By Tianyu Chen, Xinyang Liu, Ruyi An, Zhendong Wang, Mingyuan Zhou
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

Free the Language Model From the Vision Encoder: Semantic Serialization as a Perception Interface for Small Language Models

The paper introduces a perception interface that separates vision from language in vision‑language models. A frozen perception stack detects objects, a deterministic semantic serializer converts the perceived state into text, and a standard text‑only large language model (LLM) answers questions. Experiments on a campus‑robot benchmark show that this serialized interface outperforms a zero‑shot VLM of the same language‑model size, especially as the language model shrinks, and that the advantage persists under paraphrase and different supervision regimes.

By Cong Xu, Ravi Sankar
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Benchmarking System One decision models against trained classifiers and language models for automated decision gates

The paper evaluates System One decision models—typed models that output probabilities for branching decisions—against supervised classifiers and generative language models on automated decision gate tasks. Eight checkpoints from six families, including the hosted model Jev, were benchmarked on workflow, intent, and social‑science items, showing that small trained classifiers match or slightly outperform decision models on intent and workflow when labels are available, while decision models outperform zero‑shot classifiers when labels are absent. The study also explores calibration, risk thresholds, and cost‑efficiency trade‑offs, providing condition‑dependent design guidelines for automated decision gates.

By Amir Rafe, Subasish Das
arXiv AI
1d ago

Jev-LiteMAS: Separating Decisions from Generation in Multi-Agent Workflows

Jev-LiteMAS is a multi‑agent framework that separates decision‑making from generative execution in large‑language‑model workflows. By using a lightweight decision model (Jev) to dynamically select experts and screen artifacts, it closes the planning and review gaps left by pure generative planners and reviewers. Experiments on four benchmarks show that Jev‑LiteMAS cuts generative‑LLM token usage by 12.7–54.6% while keeping accuracy within 1.34 percentage points and reducing latency in most settings.

By Kaixiang Wang, Zhaijiacheng Zhou, Jiong Lou, Jie Li
arXiv AI
Oct 9

TypedBench: A Benchmark for Calibration, Framing Sensitivity, and Cost in System One Decision Models

TypedBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate system‑one decision models that output calibrated probabilities for typed answers—categorical, ordinal, or binary—using a non‑generative interface. The benchmark assesses models on policy adherence, wording robustness, probability quality (via selective prediction, ordinal proper scoring rules, and calibration error), and the cost of decisions under asymmetric cost matrices, using seven policy‑labelled generators and nine evaluation suites. Experiments on a hosted model, an open encoder, and a range of open decoders (0.8B–9B parameters) reveal that the hosted model is wording‑sensitive and underconfident, while decoders are slow and less accurate on policy questions, highlighting the need for joint evaluation across multiple dimensions.

By Rahul Sharma, Andrew B. Ducan, Ga\'etan Marceau Caron, Sebastian J. Vollmer
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Offline Multimodal Large Language Models for Decision Support in Air Operations

The paper explores offline large language models as decision‑support tools for air operations, where analysts must work with doctrine and imagery under limited connectivity. It presents a modular retrieval‑augmented architecture that handles both text and image inputs from technical manuals and can operate without Internet access. A pilot study with four Brazilian Air Force image analysts shows the system matches human performance on doctrinal knowledge tests while completing the task in a fraction of the time, and it highlights the high cognitive load of manual target reporting.

By Joao P. A. Dantas, Jelton A. Cunha, Gabriel Dietzsch
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 1

Bongard: Training Machine Intuition

arXiv:2609.39111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human intelligence relies heavily on learned intuition: recognising patterns and judging situations without explicitly unfolding every intermediate ste...

By Li Ding, Haidi Jin, Chen Ji