LLMs can be repurposed as fast single-pass decision models with explicit probabilities

Diverse supervision and reasoning distillation improve new-schema accuracy while cutting latency by 182-fold on Gemma-4-31B.

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Ziyi Chen · Yan Zhang · Jianhui Wei · Jianing Yin · Daoan Zhang

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · National University of Singapore · Zhejiang University · University of Pennsylvania · University of Rochester

Research Digest··3 min read
The authors propose Large Decision Models (LDMs), which repurpose large language models to return explicit probabilities over labels in a single prefill forward pass.

Traditionally, LLMs make decisions by autoregressive decoding, which is slow and hides probabilities.

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first published 19 Oct, 7:36 am
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