diff --git a/langkit/metrics/topic.py b/langkit/metrics/topic.py
index 8b79e56..ce27a33 100644
--- a/langkit/metrics/topic.py
+++ b/langkit/metrics/topic.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from functools import partial
+from functools import lru_cache, partial
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 from transformers import Pipeline, pipeline  # type: ignore
 
 from langkit.core.metric import MetricCreator, MultiMetric, MultiMetricResult
-from langkit.metrics.util import LazyInit
 
 __default_topics = [
     "medicine",
@@ -19,21 +18,35 @@
 _hypothesis_template = "This example is about {}"
 
 
-__classifier: LazyInit[Pipeline] = LazyInit(
-    lambda: pipeline(
+@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
+def _get_classifier(model_version: str) -> Pipeline:
+    return pipeline(
         "zero-shot-classification",
-        model="MoritzLaurer/xtremedistil-l6-h256-zeroshot-v1.1-all-33",
+        model=model_version,
         device="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu",
     )
-)
+
+
+MODEL_SMALL = "MoritzLaurer/xtremedistil-l6-h256-zeroshot-v1.1-all-33"
+MODEL_BASE = "MoritzLaurer/deberta-v3-base-zeroshot-v1.1-all-33"
+MODEL_LARGE = "MoritzLaurer/deberta-v3-large-zeroshot-v1.1-all-33"
 
 
 def __get_scores_per_label(
-    text: str, topics: List[str], hypothesis_template: str = _hypothesis_template, multi_label: bool = True
+    text: str,
+    topics: List[str],
+    hypothesis_template: str = _hypothesis_template,
+    multi_label: bool = True,
+    model_version: str = MODEL_SMALL,
 ) -> Optional[Dict[str, float]]:
     if not text:
         return None
-    result: Dict[str, [str, float]] = __classifier.value(text, topics, hypothesis_template=hypothesis_template, multi_label=multi_label)  # type: ignore
+    result: Dict[str, [str, float]] = _get_classifier(model_version)(  # type: ignore
+        text,
+        topics,
+        hypothesis_template=hypothesis_template,
+        multi_label=multi_label,  # type: ignore
+    )
     scores_per_label: Dict[str, float] = {label: score for label, score in zip(result["labels"], result["scores"])}  # type: ignore[reportUnknownVariableType]
     return scores_per_label
 
@@ -45,7 +58,9 @@ def _sanitize_metric_name(topic: str) -> str:
     return topic.replace(" ", "_").lower()
 
 
-def topic_metric(input_name: str, topics: List[str], hypothesis_template: Optional[str] = None) -> MultiMetric:
+def topic_metric(
+    input_name: str, topics: List[str], hypothesis_template: Optional[str] = None, model_version: str = MODEL_SMALL
+) -> MultiMetric:
     hypothesis_template = hypothesis_template or _hypothesis_template
 
     def udf(text: pd.DataFrame) -> MultiMetricResult:
@@ -53,7 +68,7 @@ def udf(text: pd.DataFrame) -> MultiMetricResult:
 
         def process_row(row: pd.DataFrame) -> Dict[str, List[Optional[float]]]:
             value: Any = row[input_name]  # type: ignore
-            scores = __get_scores_per_label(value, topics=topics, hypothesis_template=hypothesis_template)  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]
+            scores = __get_scores_per_label(value, topics=topics, hypothesis_template=hypothesis_template, model_version=model_version)  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]
             for topic in topics:
                 metrics[topic].append(scores[topic] if scores else None)
             return metrics
@@ -67,15 +82,15 @@ def process_row(row: pd.DataFrame) -> Dict[str, List[Optional[float]]]:
         return MultiMetricResult(metrics=all_metrics)
 
     def cache_assets():
-        __classifier.value
+        _get_classifier(model_version)
 
     metric_names = [f"{input_name}.topics.{_sanitize_metric_name(topic)}" for topic in topics]
     return MultiMetric(names=metric_names, input_name=input_name, evaluate=udf, cache_assets=cache_assets)
 
 
-prompt_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "prompt", __default_topics, _hypothesis_template)
-response_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "response", __default_topics, _hypothesis_template)
-prompt_response_topic_module = [prompt_topic_module, response_topic_module, _hypothesis_template]
+prompt_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "prompt", __default_topics, _hypothesis_template, MODEL_SMALL)
+response_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "response", __default_topics, _hypothesis_template, MODEL_SMALL)
+prompt_response_topic_module = [prompt_topic_module, response_topic_module, _hypothesis_template, MODEL_SMALL]
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -85,9 +100,11 @@ class CustomTopicModules:
     prompt_response_topic_module: MetricCreator
 
 
-def get_custom_topic_modules(topics: List[str], template: str = _hypothesis_template) -> CustomTopicModules:
-    prompt_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "prompt", topics, template)
-    response_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "response", topics, template)
+def get_custom_topic_modules(
+    topics: List[str], template: str = _hypothesis_template, model_version: str = MODEL_SMALL
+) -> CustomTopicModules:
+    prompt_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "prompt", topics, template, model_version)
+    response_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "response", topics, template, model_version)
     return CustomTopicModules(
         prompt_topic_module=prompt_topic_module,
         response_topic_module=response_topic_module,
diff --git a/tests/langkit/metrics/test_topic.py b/tests/langkit/metrics/test_topic.py
index 1dfe4b3..54767be 100644
--- a/tests/langkit/metrics/test_topic.py
+++ b/tests/langkit/metrics/test_topic.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # pyright: reportUnknownMemberType=none
+from functools import partial
 from typing import Any
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
 from langkit.core.metric import WorkflowMetricConfig, WorkflowMetricConfigBuilder
 from langkit.core.workflow import Workflow
 from langkit.metrics.library import lib
-from langkit.metrics.topic import get_custom_topic_modules, prompt_topic_module
+from langkit.metrics.topic import MODEL_BASE, get_custom_topic_modules, prompt_topic_module, topic_metric
 from langkit.metrics.whylogs_compat import create_whylogs_udf_schema
 
 expected_metrics = [
@@ -81,6 +82,21 @@ def test_topic():
     assert actual.index.tolist() == expected_columns
 
 
+def test_topic_base_model():
+    df = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            "prompt": [
+                "http://get-free-money-now.xyz/bank/details",
+            ],
+        }
+    )
+
+    custom_topic_module = partial(topic_metric, "prompt", ["phishing"], model_version=MODEL_BASE)
+    schema = WorkflowMetricConfigBuilder().add(custom_topic_module).build()
+    actual = _log(df, schema)
+    assert actual.loc["prompt.topics.phishing"]["distribution/mean"] > 0.80
+
+
 def test_topic_empty_input():
     df = pd.DataFrame(
         {
@@ -243,6 +259,25 @@ def test_custom_topic():
             assert actual.loc[column]["distribution/max"] >= 0.50
 
 
+def test_custom_topics_base_model():
+    df = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            "prompt": [
+                "http://get-free-money-now.xyz/bank/details",
+            ],
+            "response": [
+                "http://win-a-free-iphone-today.net",
+            ],
+        }
+    )
+
+    custom_topic_modules = get_custom_topic_modules(["phishing"], model_version=MODEL_BASE)
+    schema = WorkflowMetricConfigBuilder().add(custom_topic_modules.prompt_response_topic_module).build()
+    actual = _log(df, schema)
+    assert actual.loc["prompt.topics.phishing"]["distribution/mean"] > 0.80
+    assert actual.loc["response.topics.phishing"]["distribution/mean"] > 0.80
+
+
 def test_topic_name_sanitize():
     df = pd.DataFrame(
         {