Laya Skips the Conversation
An open model for choices, scores and probabilities, with a narrow job to do.
Laya scores possible decisions from text or structured data in a single forward pass, returning a choice, score or probability. An email might need a department, an urgency level or a phishing flag.
The open project ships several checkpoints under Apache 2.0. Its main English model has about 421 million parameters. A multilingual version has about 322 million and covers more than 100 languages. They can run on your own hardware. It does not generate output tokens one by one. Routing a request through a large chatbot, then parsing its sentence back into a label, adds machinery to a task whose output was a label all along.
The published results also show where this approach needs work. General checkpoints can perform poorly on tasks they have not been specialised for. The documentation asks users to evaluate and fine-tune for their workload. That is a meaningful constraint, especially if the decision affects a person or a business process.
Laya by Convai Innovations
An open decision-model family that returns typed choices, scores and probabilities instead of generating prose.
Read the official model cardLicense: Apache-2.0