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What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Models

vLLM Semantic Router drops Decision 3.0: five open-weight models (0.8B–27B) that answer choice, yes/no, and scoring questions on text and images without generating text. Direct classification without reasoning overhead.

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Why it matters

A new open-weight model family optimized for structured decision tasks (classification, scoring) rather than generation. Relevant to practitioners building agent routing, content classification, and scoring pipelines who want Apache-2.0 alternatives to API-based classifiers.

The key facts

11 to know
  1. vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0

  2. 5 multimodal decision models

  3. Model sizes: 0.8B to 27B parameters

  4. Apache 2.0 license

  5. Handles choice, yes/no, and score questions

  6. Operates on text and images

  7. Single-call inference, no text generation

  8. 5 open-weight multimodal models under Apache 2.0 license

  9. Designed for choice, yes/no, and scoring questions on text and images

  10. No generative text output (classification-only design)

  11. Released October 2026

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Publisher excerpt: vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0, 5 Apache-2.0 multimodal decision models from 0.8B to 27B. They answer choice, yes/no and score questions about text and images in one call, without generating text.
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