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most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

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cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Reasoning Models

Akhiad Bercovich, Itay Levy, Izik Golan +132

We introduce the Llama-Nemotron series of models, an open family of heterogeneous reasoning models that deliver exceptional reasoning capabilities, inference efficiency, and an ope…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024

IdentifyMe: A Challenging Long-Context Mention Resolution Benchmark for LLMs

Kawshik Manikantan, Makarand Tapaswi, Vineet Gandhi +1

Recent evaluations of LLMs on coreference resolution have revealed that traditional output formats and evaluation metrics do not fully capture the models' referential understanding…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

OpenMathInstruct-2: Accelerating AI for Math with Massive Open-Source Instruction Data

Shubham Toshniwal, Wei Du, Ivan Moshkov +3

Mathematical reasoning continues to be a critical challenge in large language model (LLM) development with significant interest. However, most of the cutting-edge progress in mathe…

cs.CL2024

Major Entity Identification: A Generalizable Alternative to Coreference Resolution

Kawshik Manikantan, Shubham Toshniwal, Makarand Tapaswi +1

The limited generalization of coreference resolution (CR) models has been a major bottleneck in the task's broad application. Prior work has identified annotation differences, espe…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

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…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Code Pretraining Improves Entity Tracking Abilities of Language Models

Najoung Kim, Sebastian Schuster, Shubham Toshniwal

Recent work has provided indirect evidence that pretraining language models on code improves the ability of models to track state changes of discourse entities expressed in natural…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

OpenMathInstruct-1: A 1.8 Million Math Instruction Tuning Dataset

Shubham Toshniwal, Ivan Moshkov, Sean Narenthiran +3

Recent work has shown the immense potential of synthetically generated datasets for training large language models (LLMs), especially for acquiring targeted skills. Current large-s…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Text Models for Long Text Sequences

Wenhan Xiong, Anchit Gupta, Shubham Toshniwal +2

We present an empirical study of adapting an existing pretrained text-to-text model for long-sequence inputs. Through a comprehensive study along three axes of the pretraining pipe…

cs.CL2022

Efficient and Interpretable Neural Models for Entity Tracking

Shubham Toshniwal

What would it take for a natural language model to understand a novel, such as The Lord of the Rings? Among other things, such a model must be able to: (a) identify and record new…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…

cs.CL2021

On Generalization in Coreference Resolution

Shubham Toshniwal, Patrick Xia, Sam Wiseman +2

While coreference resolution is defined independently of dataset domain, most models for performing coreference resolution do not transfer well to unseen domains. We consolidate a…

cs.CL2021

Chess as a Testbed for Language Model State Tracking

Shubham Toshniwal, Sam Wiseman, Karen Livescu +1

Transformer language models have made tremendous strides in natural language understanding tasks. However, the complexity of natural language makes it challenging to ascertain how…

cs.CL2020

Learning to Ignore: Long Document Coreference with Bounded Memory Neural Networks

Shubham Toshniwal, Sam Wiseman, Allyson Ettinger +2

Long document coreference resolution remains a challenging task due to the large memory and runtime requirements of current models. Recent work doing incremental coreference resolu…

cs.CL2020

A Cross-Task Analysis of Text Span Representations

Shubham Toshniwal, Haoyue Shi, Bowen Shi +3

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks involve reasoning with textual spans, including question answering, entity recognition, and coreference resolution. While extensive res…

cs.CL2020

PeTra: A Sparsely Supervised Memory Model for People Tracking

Shubham Toshniwal, Allyson Ettinger, Kevin Gimpel +1

We propose PeTra, a memory-augmented neural network designed to track entities in its memory slots. PeTra is trained using sparse annotation from the GAP pronoun resolution dataset…

cs.CL2018★ 36 cited

Hierarchical Multitask Learning for CTC-based Speech Recognition

Kalpesh Krishna, Shubham Toshniwal, Karen Livescu

Previous work has shown that neural encoder-decoder speech recognition can be improved with hierarchical multitask learning, where auxiliary tasks are added at intermediate layers…

cs.CL2017

Multitask Learning with Low-Level Auxiliary Tasks for Encoder-Decoder Based Speech Recognition

Shubham Toshniwal, Hao Tang, Liang Lu +1

End-to-end training of deep learning-based models allows for implicit learning of intermediate representations based on the final task loss. However, the end-to-end approach ignore…

cs.CL2017★ 4 cited

Parsing Speech: A Neural Approach to Integrating Lexical and Acoustic-Prosodic Information

Trang Tran, Shubham Toshniwal, Mohit Bansal +3

In conversational speech, the acoustic signal provides cues that help listeners disambiguate difficult parses. For automatically parsing spoken utterances, we introduce a model tha…

cs.CL2016

Jointly Learning to Align and Convert Graphemes to Phonemes with Neural Attention Models

Shubham Toshniwal, Karen Livescu

We propose an attention-enabled encoder-decoder model for the problem of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Most previous work has tackled the problem via joint sequence models that r…