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most citedCompact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation

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cs.AI2026

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…

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

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…

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 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.…

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

Scaling Fine-Grained MoE Beyond 50B Parameters: Empirical Evaluation and Practical Insights

Jakub Krajewski, Marcin Chochowski, Daniel Korzekwa

Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures have emerged as pivotal for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently. Fine-grained MoE approaches - utilizing more numerous, smaller…

cs.CL2025

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…

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★ 3 cited

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…

cs.CL2024★ 10 cited

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…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Dynamic Memory Compression: Retrofitting LLMs for Accelerated Inference

Piotr Nawrot, Adrian Łańcucki, Marcin Chochowski +2

Transformers have emerged as the backbone of large language models (LLMs). However, generation remains inefficient due to the need to store in memory a cache of key-value represent…