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20222026
most citedNeMo Guardrails: A Toolkit for Controllable and Safe LLM Applications with Programmable Rails

7 citations · 22 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

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.LG2026

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…

cs.CR2026

Training a General Purpose Automated Red Teaming Model

Aishwarya Padmakumar, Leon Derczynski, Traian Rebedea +1

Automated methods for red teaming LLMs are an important tool to identify LLM vulnerabilities that may not be covered in static benchmarks, allowing for more thorough probing. They…

cs.LG2026

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…

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.LG2025

SafeSteer: Interpretable Safety Steering with Refusal-Evasion in LLMs

Shaona Ghosh, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Yftah Ziser +1

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to adapt to evolving safety policies is costly and impractical. Mechanistic interpretability enables inference-time control through latent…

cs.AI2025

Safety Through Reasoning: An Empirical Study of Reasoning Guardrail Models

Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Traian Rebedea, Christopher Parisien

Reasoning-based language models have demonstrated strong performance across various domains, with the most notable gains seen in mathematical and coding tasks. Recent research has…

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★ 1 cited

Towards Inference-time Category-wise Safety Steering for Large Language Models

Amrita Bhattacharjee, Shaona Ghosh, Traian Rebedea +1

While large language models (LLMs) have seen unprecedented advancements in capabilities and applications across a variety of use-cases, safety alignment of these models is still an…

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★ 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.LG2024★ 3 cited

AEGIS: Online Adaptive AI Content Safety Moderation with Ensemble of LLM Experts

Shaona Ghosh, Prasoon Varshney, Erick Galinkin +1

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI become more widespread, the content safety risks associated with their use also increase. We find a notable deficiency in high-qua…

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★ 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.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…