Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns structured answers. Each answer comes with a probability distribution, a confidence score, and constraint-feasibility metadata. It targets the frequent judgment calls inside agent pipelines: routing, triage, tool selection, and guardrails.

Is it deployable? Yes, the weights ship under Apache 2.0 and install with pip install gliner2. They run on CPU, GPU, or in air-gapped environments. Fastino team also offers hosted inference and fine-tuning through its GLiNER API.

What GLiNER2.5-Decide Actually Does

GLiNER2.5-Decide is a non-generative classifier. It uses a DeBERTa-v3-large encoder and is fine-tuned from gliner2-large-v1. It produces no generated tokens and needs no prompt template.

Label sets are passed at call time. Each question in the schema declares its permitted answers. It also declares whether it expects one answer, multiple answers, or an ordered value. Schemas can carry instructions, examples, label descriptions, and rules linking answers across questions.

The pipeline has 2 stages. The encoder reads the text and schema together and scores every permitted answer. A constrained decoder then searches for the highest-scoring joint assignment the declared rules allow.

Fastino is explicit about scope. The model does not reason, explain, or answer open questions. It is a specialist for operational decisions.

Why Joint Decoding Matters

Fastino team illustrates the value with a guardrail example. Decoded independently, the model flagged prompt injection at 0.82. It also labeled the same prompt safe at 0.52. The attack was detected, but the 2 outputs conflicted.

Joint decoding applies a rule that any detected harm requires an unsafe verdict. The model then returns safety=unsafe and harm_type=prompt_injection together. Downstream code can use those scores to block, route, or escalate.

Schemas can express implications, exclusions, cardinality limits, and ordinal bounds. The same encoder can also extract entities, relations, and structured records with character-level offsets in 1 forward pass. Classification answers do not return evidence spans.

Benchmark Results on Fast Decisions

Fastino team evaluated the model on Fast Decisions, an internally generated, held-out suite. It contains 5,100 test examples across 17 datasets. The tasks cover customer operations, domain routing (banking, clinical, travel, benefits), and general content understanding. The metric is exact-match accuracy: a prediction counts only if its label set matches the reference exactly.

Model	Type	Average
GLiNER2.5-Decide	340M encoder	60.1%
JevK5	4B-class Qwen3.5 decoder	57.5%
SemIf	Qwen3.5-4B decoder	56.4%
GLiFormer large-v1	Single-pass encoder	49.0%
Laya	421M ModernBERT encoder	46.6%

GLiNER2.5-Decide led 9 of the 17 datasets. Intent routing was its strongest area. It scored 75.3% on support intent and 64.3% on banking intent. Those are 18.6 and 8.6 points ahead of the next-best models.

Latency: Practical on CPU

Fastino team benchmarked the checkpoint end to end at batch 1 with a 2-head, 15-label schema. At 64 tokens, p50 latency was:

• 167.3 ms on a 48-vCPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8581C
• 43.6 ms on an NVIDIA T4
• 43.4 ms on an NVIDIA L4
• 38.3 ms on an NVIDIA V100
• 47.3 ms on an NVIDIA A100

Short requests are dominated by fixed preprocessing and kernel-launch overhead. That keeps the GPUs within 9 ms of each other. At 1,024 tokens, the A100 pulls ahead at 52.6 ms, versus 75.6 ms on V100 and 131.4 ms on L4.

Using It in Code

This multi-head call is adapted from the model card:

from gliner2 import AutoExtractor

model = AutoExtractor.from_pretrained("fastino/GLiNER2.5-Decide")

model.classify_text(
    "Please confirm the new retention rule is applied before Friday's audit.",
    {
        "intent": ["fyi", "request", "approval", "complaint"],
        "urgency": ["low", "normal", "high", "critical"],
        "route": ["support", "billing", "legal", "security"],
    },
)

Single-label heads return one string. Multi-label heads return every label above a cls_threshold. Labels can carry descriptions, and ordinal scales are passed as ordinary strings like “0” to “10”.

Use Cases and the Model Family

Fastino targets model routing, tool calling, browser and computer use, guardrails, context pruning, LLM-as-a-judge, and simulations. Fine-tuning works locally, fully or with LoRA, through the GLiNER2 trainer. A SKILL.md file exposes the hosted workflow to coding agents.

Fastino also published GLiNER2.5-Decide-1B, built on the Ettin 1B encoder. It scores 59.6% on the same suite, just under the 340M model. For multilingual input, Fastino points to GLiNER2.5-multi-Decide, a 287M model scoring 56.7%. The underlying architecture is described in the GLiNER2 paper.

Key Takeaways

• 340M open-weight encoder, Apache 2.0, runs on CPU or air-gapped.
• Returns answers, probabilities, confidence, and feasibility metadata.
• Joint decoding enforces rules across related answers.
• 60.1% average on Fastino’s internal 17-dataset suite, leading 9.
• 167.3 ms p50 on CPU, 38.3 ms on V100 for short inputs.

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