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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…
GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization
Shih-Yang Liu, Xin Dong, Ximing Lu +10
As language models become increasingly capable, users expect them to provide not only accurate responses but also behaviors aligned with diverse human preferences across a variety…
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…
Efficient-DLM: From Autoregressive to Diffusion Language Models, and Beyond in Speed
Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Zhifan Ye +11
Diffusion language models (dLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm that enables parallel, non-autoregressive generation, but their learning efficiency lags behind that of autore…
ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration
Hongjin Su, Shizhe Diao, Ximing Lu +13
Large language models are powerful generalists, yet solving deep and complex problems such as those of the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) remains both conceptually challenging and comp…
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.…
TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression
Jingyu Liu, Xin Dong, Zhifan Ye +6
Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally…
ProfBench: Multi-Domain Rubrics requiring Professional Knowledge to Answer and Judge
Zhilin Wang, Jaehun Jung, Ximing Lu +7
Evaluating progress in large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by the challenge of verifying responses, limiting assessments to tasks like mathematics, programming, and s…
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…
ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models
Mingjie Liu, Shizhe Diao, Ximing Lu +5
Recent advances in reasoning-centric language models have highlighted reinforcement learning (RL) as a promising method for aligning models with verifiable rewards. However, it rem…
LongMamba: Enhancing Mamba's Long Context Capabilities via Training-Free Receptive Field Enlargement
Zhifan Ye, Kejing Xia, Yonggan Fu +7
State space models (SSMs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to Transformer models for language modeling, offering linear computational complexity and constant memory usage a…
Nemotron-CLIMB: CLustering-based Iterative Data Mixture Bootstrapping for Language Model Pre-training
Shizhe Diao, Yu Yang, Yonggan Fu +11
Pre-training datasets are typically collected from web content and lack inherent domain divisions. For instance, widely used datasets like Common Crawl do not include explicit doma…
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…
Hymba: A Hybrid-head Architecture for Small Language Models
Xin Dong, Yonggan Fu, Shizhe Diao +10
We propose Hymba, a family of small language models featuring a hybrid-head parallel architecture that integrates transformer attention mechanisms with state space models (SSMs) fo…
EoRA: Fine-tuning-free Compensation for Compressed LLM with Eigenspace Low-Rank Approximation
Shih-Yang Liu, Maksim Khadkevich, Nai Chit Fung +10
While post-training compression techniques effectively reduce the memory footprint, latency, and power consumption of Large Language Models (LLMs), they often result in noticeable…
LLM Pruning and Distillation in Practice: The Minitron Approach
Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Saurav Muralidharan, Raviraj Joshi +19
We present a comprehensive report on compressing the Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral NeMo 12B models to 4B and 8B parameters, respectively, using pruning and distillation. We explore two…
Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
Saurav Muralidharan, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Raviraj Joshi +6
Large language models (LLMs) targeting different deployment scales and sizes are currently produced by training each variant from scratch; this is extremely compute-intensive. In t…
Flextron: Many-in-One Flexible Large Language Model
Ruisi Cai, Saurav Muralidharan, Greg Heinrich +4
Training modern LLMs is extremely resource intensive, and customizing them for various deployment scenarios characterized by limited compute and memory resources through repeated t…