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CSD: Common-Support Distillation for Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Transfer
Mingyu Yang, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Adithyakrishna Venkatesh Hanasoge +3
Cross-tokenizer logits distillation enables knowledge transfer across model families, allowing students to learn from stronger or more specialized teachers. However, differences in…
Accelerating Video Diffusion via Training-Free Trajectory Routing
Mustafa Munir, Huy Vu, Shreyas Misra +7
Video diffusion is computationally expensive, as it requires executing a large model across many denoising steps. Even with step-distillation, inference remains expensive because e…
SOAP, Muon, and Beyond: Pushing LLM Pretraining Scales
Mikail Khona, Aditya Vavre, Boxiang Wang +11
Higher-order optimizers such as Muon and SOAP offer faster convergence than AdamW, but their computational cost and numerical stability challenges have limited adoption at scale. I…
Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model Unifying Autoregressive, Diffusion, and Self-Speculation Decoding
Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Abhinav Garg +23
We introduce Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a tri-mode language model (LM) that unifies AR, diffusion, and self-speculation decoding within a single architecture. Trained with a joint AR…
Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: Compressing Hybrid MoE LLMs
Akhiad Bercovich, Talor Abramovich, Daniel Afrimi +67
We present Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed variant of Nemotron-3-Super optimized for interactive deployment. We designed the model to maximize server throughput under…
Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +572
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…
Heterogeneous Parallelism for Multimodal Large Language Model Training
Yashaswi Karnati, Kamran Jafari, Akash Mehra +10
Foundation model training is becoming multimodal, from post-training pipelines to large-scale pretraining. As modality coverage broadens, context windows grow, and encoder LLM scal…
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Efficient and Open Multimodal Intelligence
NVIDIA, :, Amala Sanjay Deshmukh +204
We introduce Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, the latest model in the Nemotron multimodal series and the first to natively support audio inputs alongside text, images, and video. Nemotron 3 N…
Star Elastic: Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs with Efficient Budget Control
Ali Taghibakhshi, Ruisi Cai, Saurav Muralidharan +17
Training a family of large language models (LLMs), either from scratch or via iterative compression, is prohibitively expensive and inefficient, requiring separate training runs fo…
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…
Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery
Meng Xin, Sweta Priyadarshi, Jingyu Xin +26
This technical report presents quantization-aware distillation (QAD) and our best practices for recovering accuracy of NVFP4-quantized large language models (LLMs) and vision-langu…
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 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…
Nemotron Elastic: Towards Efficient Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs
Ali Taghibakhshi, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Saurav Muralidharan +13
Training a family of large language models targeting multiple scales and deployment objectives is prohibitively expensive, requiring separate training runs for each different size.…
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…
Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
NVIDIA, Felix Abecassis, Anjulie Agrusa +87
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training…
Minitron-SSM: Efficient Hybrid Language Model Compression through Group-Aware SSM Pruning
Ali Taghibakhshi, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Saurav Muralidharan +15
Hybrid LLM architectures that combine Attention and State Space Models (SSMs) achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and runtime performance. Recent work has demonstrated that applying…
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…
Training Video Foundation Models with NVIDIA NeMo
Zeeshan Patel, Ethan He, Parth Mannan +26
Video Foundation Models (VFMs) have recently been used to simulate the real world to train physical AI systems and develop creative visual experiences. However, there are significa…
Llama 3 Meets MoE: Efficient Upcycling
Aditya Vavre, Ethan He, Dennis Liu +4
Scaling large language models (LLMs) significantly improves performance but comes with prohibitive computational costs. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models offer an efficient alternati…
Elucidating Optimal Reward-Diversity Tradeoffs in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Rohit Jena, Ali Taghibakhshi, Sahil Jain +3
Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have become prominent tools for generating high-fidelity images from text prompts. However, when trained on unfiltered internet data, these mod…
StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
Anton Lozhkov, Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal +63
The BigCode project, an open-scientific collaboration focused on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder2. In partnership wi…
SciGraphQA: A Large-Scale Synthetic Multi-Turn Question-Answering Dataset for Scientific Graphs
Shengzhi Li, Nima Tajbakhsh
In this work, we present SciGraphQA, a synthetic multi-turn question-answer dataset related to academic graphs. SciGraphQA is 13 times larger than ChartVQA, the previously largest…
MDT-Net: Multi-domain Transfer by Perceptual Supervision for Unpaired Images in OCT Scan
Weinan Song, Gaurav Fotedar, Nima Tajbakhsh +3
Deep learning models tend to underperform in the presence of domain shifts. Domain transfer has recently emerged as a promising approach wherein images exhibiting a domain shift ar…