StudioBenchmarking System 1 decision models (tev1, Jev, pplx-decider-v1.2, Liquid d1.1) vs a 9B LLM for agent routing and tool gating
Original title: What we learned benchmarking System 1 decision models (tev1, Jev, pplx-decider-v1.2, Liquid d1.1) vs a 9B LLM for agent routing and tool gating
The author benchmarked routing and tool gating in their open-source multi-agent harness by asking 40 orthogonal yes/no questions in one shot (5 specialist routing, 25 sub-intent facets, 5 conversational exclusions, 5 commitment gates). Hosted parallel APIs (TypeSafe jev-1.14.0, OpenRouter pplx-decider-v1.2, liquid/d1.1, etc.) evaluated all 40 questions in 159–319 ms at $0.000028–$0.00006 per turn, cutting LLM fallback rate from ~15% to 0%, with jev-1.14.0 and pplx-decider-v1.2 at 100% accuracy on a 24-turn test. Local Ollama tev1 4.3B Q8_0 (RTX 4070 Ti SUPER) evaluates in -np 16 waves, so the router auto-switches to a lean 5 specialist questions + 1 commitment gate split, giving 27 ms single gates and 56/56 accuracy on the unseen routing set. The author also applies a gate: every decision…
The author benchmarked several System 1 decision models on routing latency and accuracy with their own harness, and shares a transferable gate for when to fall back to deterministic lookup instead.
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