Publications (16)
Nemotron-4 340B Technical Report
Nvidia, :, Bo Adler +80
We release the Nemotron-4 340B model family, including Nemotron-4-340B-Base, Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct, and Nemotron-4-340B-Reward. Our models are open access under the NVIDIA Open…
Nemotron 3 Super: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
NVIDIA, :, Aakshita Chandiramani +544
We describe the pre-training, post-training, and quantization of Nemotron 3 Super, a 120 billion (active 12 billion) parameter hybrid Mamba-Attention Mixture-of-Experts model. Nemo…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Efficient and Open Intelligence
NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +356
We introduce the Nemotron 3 family of models - Nano, Super, and Ultra. These models deliver strong agentic, reasoning, and conversational capabilities. The Nemotron 3 family uses a…
Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +571
We introduce Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550 billion total and 55 billion active parameter Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Attention language model. We pre-trained Nemotron 3 Ultra on 20 t…
Nemotron 3 Nano: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +311
We present Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B, a Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer language model. Nemotron 3 Nano was pretrained on 25 trillion text tokens, including more than 3 t…
Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM
Deepak Narayanan, Mohammad Shoeybi, Jared Casper +9
Large language models have led to state-of-the-art accuracies across a range of tasks. However, training these models efficiently is challenging for two reasons: a) GPU memory capa…
Nemotron-4 15B Technical Report
Jupinder Parmar, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Joseph Jennings +24
We introduce Nemotron-4 15B, a 15-billion-parameter large multilingual language model trained on 8 trillion text tokens. Nemotron-4 15B demonstrates strong performance when assesse…
Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model
Shaden Smith, Mostofa Patwary, Brandon Norick +17
Pretrained general-purpose language models can achieve state-of-the-art accuracies in various natural language processing domains by adapting to downstream tasks via zero-shot, few…
Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
Dario Amodei, Rishita Anubhai, Eric Battenberg +31
We show that an end-to-end deep learning approach can be used to recognize either English or Mandarin Chinese speech--two vastly different languages. Because it replaces entire pip…
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…
Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism
Mohammad Shoeybi, Mostofa Patwary, Raul Puri +3
Recent work in language modeling demonstrates that training large transformer models advances the state of the art in Natural Language Processing applications. However, very large…
Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition
Awni Hannun, Carl Case, Jared Casper +8
We present a state-of-the-art speech recognition system developed using end-to-end deep learning. Our architecture is significantly simpler than traditional speech systems, which r…
An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models
Roger Waleffe, Wonmin Byeon, Duncan Riach +13
Selective state-space models (SSMs) like Mamba overcome some of the shortcomings of Transformers, such as quadratic computational complexity with sequence length and large inferenc…
Reducing Activation Recomputation in Large Transformer Models
Vijay Korthikanti, Jared Casper, Sangkug Lym +4
Training large transformer models is one of the most important computational challenges of modern AI. In this paper, we show how to significantly accelerate training of large trans…
Nemotron-H: A Family of Accurate and Efficient Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Models
NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +198
As inference-time scaling becomes critical for enhanced reasoning capabilities, it is increasingly becoming important to build models that are efficient to infer. We introduce Nemo…
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2: An Accurate and Efficient Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Reasoning Model
NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant +214
We introduce Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer language model designed to increase throughput for reasoning workloads while achieving state-of-the-art accuracy compar…