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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

Pluralistic Behavior Suite: Stress-Testing Multi-Turn Adherence to Custom Behavioral Policies

Prasoon Varshney, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Liwei Jiang +2

Large language models (LLMs) are typically aligned to a universal set of safety and usage principles intended for broad public acceptability. Yet, real-world applications of LLMs o…

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

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.CL2025★ 2 cited

Aegis2.0: A Diverse AI Safety Dataset and Risks Taxonomy for Alignment of LLM Guardrails

Shaona Ghosh, Prasoon Varshney, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar +4

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI become increasingly widespread, concerns about content safety have grown in parallel. Currently, there is a clear lack of high-qua…

cs.CL2024

Unsupervised Extraction of Dialogue Policies from Conversations

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Traian Rebedea, Christopher Parisien

Dialogue policies play a crucial role in developing task-oriented dialogue systems, yet their development and maintenance are challenging and typically require substantial effort f…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

HelpSteer2: Open-source dataset for training top-performing reward models

Zhilin Wang, Yi Dong, Olivier Delalleau +6

High-quality preference datasets are essential for training reward models that can effectively guide large language models (LLMs) in generating high-quality responses aligned with…

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

CantTalkAboutThis: Aligning Language Models to Stay on Topic in Dialogues

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Traian Rebedea, Shaona Ghosh +2

Recent advancements in instruction-tuning datasets have predominantly focused on specific tasks like mathematical or logical reasoning. There has been a notable gap in data designe…

cs.CL2023

The Cost of Compression: Investigating the Impact of Compression on Parametric Knowledge in Language Models

Satya Sai Srinath Namburi, Makesh Sreedhar, Srinath Srinivasan +1

Compressing large language models (LLMs), often consisting of billions of parameters, provides faster inference, smaller memory footprints, and enables local deployment. Two standa…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Evolving Domain Adaptation of Pretrained Language Models for Text Classification

Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Yi Wu, Dhruv Gupta +7

Adapting pre-trained language models (PLMs) for time-series text classification amidst evolving domain shifts (EDS) is critical for maintaining accuracy in applications like stance…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

HelpSteer: Multi-attribute Helpfulness Dataset for SteerLM

Zhilin Wang, Yi Dong, Jiaqi Zeng +8

Existing open-source helpfulness preference datasets do not specify what makes some responses more helpful and others less so. Models trained on these datasets can incidentally lea…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

NeMo Guardrails: A Toolkit for Controllable and Safe LLM Applications with Programmable Rails

Traian Rebedea, Razvan Dinu, Makesh Sreedhar +2

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems. Guardrails (or rails for short) are a specific way of contr…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

SteerLM: Attribute Conditioned SFT as an (User-Steerable) Alternative to RLHF

Yi Dong, Zhilin Wang, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar +2

Model alignment with human preferences is an essential step in making Large Language Models (LLMs) helpful and consistent with human values. It typically consists of supervised fin…

cs.CL2023

Single Sequence Prediction over Reasoning Graphs for Multi-hop QA

Gowtham Ramesh, Makesh Sreedhar, Junjie Hu

Recent generative approaches for multi-hop question answering (QA) utilize the fusion-in-decoder method~\cite{izacard-grave-2021-leveraging} to generate a single sequence output wh…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Prompt Learning for Domain Adaptation in Task-Oriented Dialogue

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Christopher Parisien

Conversation designers continue to face significant obstacles when creating production quality task-oriented dialogue systems. The complexity and cost involved in schema developmen…

cs.CL2022

Local Byte Fusion for Neural Machine Translation

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Xiangpeng Wan, Yu Cheng +1

Subword tokenization schemes are the dominant technique used in current NLP models. However, such schemes can be rigid and tokenizers built on one corpus do not adapt well to other…

cs.CL2020

Learning Improvised Chatbots from Adversarial Modifications of Natural Language Feedback

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Kun Ni, Siva Reddy

The ubiquitous nature of chatbots and their interaction with users generate an enormous amount of data. Can we improve chatbots using this data? A self-feeding chatbot improves its…