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most citedMegatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism

832 citations · 1.9k across the 80 of their papers we have counts for

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88 papers

math.CO2026

The Higher-order Stirling Triangles

William Y. C. Chen, Elena L. Wang

The th-order Stirling cycle and subset triangles and their associated quasi-Eulerian triangles were introduced by Deb and Sokal in their study of total positivity of combinatori…

eess.AS2026

Audio-Visual Flamingo: Open Audio-Visual Intelligence for Long and Complex Videos

Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Kaousheik Jayakumar +19

We present Audio-Visual Flamingo (AV-Flamingo), a fully open state-of-the-art audio-visual large language model (AV-LLM) for joint understanding and reasoning over audio, images, a…

cs.LG2026

SOAP, Muon, and Beyond: Pushing LLM Pretraining Scales

Mikail Khona, Aditya Vavre, Boxiang Wang +11

Higher-order optimizers such as Muon and SOAP offer faster convergence than AdamW, but their computational cost and numerical stability challenges have limited adoption at scale. I…

cs.CL2026

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence

Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Jaehyeon Kim +17

Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech. In this work, we introduce Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B (Audex), a unified audio-te…

cs.CL2026

Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower: Diffusion Language Modeling with Pretrained Autoregressive Context

Fitsum Reda, John Kamalu, Roger Waleffe +3

Diffusion language models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their potential for parallel and iterative generation. However, existing approaches use a si…

cs.CV2026

Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI

NVIDIA, :, Aditi +293

We introduce Cosmos 3, a family of omnimodal world models designed to jointly process and generate language, image, video, audio, and action sequences within a unified mixture-of-t…

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.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.SD2026

Audio Flamingo Next: Next-Generation Open Audio-Language Models for Speech, Sound, and Music

Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Kaousheik Jayakumar +15

We present Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next), the next-generation and most capable large audio-language model in the Audio Flamingo series, designed to advance understanding and reason…

cs.CL2026

Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation

Zhuolin Yang, Zihan Liu, Yang Chen +14

We introduce Nemotron-Cascade 2, an open 30B MoE model with 3B activated parameters that delivers best-in-class reasoning and strong agentic capabilities. Despite its compact size,…

cs.DC2026

Scalable Training of Mixture-of-Experts Models with Megatron Core

Zijie Yan, Hongxiao Bai, Xin Yao +42

Scaling Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training introduces systems challenges absent in dense models. Because each token activates only a subset of experts, this sparsity allows total pa…

cs.CL2026

MMOU: A Massive Multi-Task Omni Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Long and Complex Real-World Videos

Arushi Goel, Sreyan Ghosh, Vatsal Agarwal +16

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in visual and audio understanding when evaluated in isolation. However, their ability to jointly reason over…

cs.CL2026

On Data Engineering for Scaling LLM Terminal Capabilities

Renjie Pi, Grace Lam, Mohammad Shoeybi +3

Despite rapid recent progress in the terminal capabilities of large language models, the training data strategies behind state-of-the-art terminal agents remain largely undisclosed…

cs.LG2026

LatentMoE: Toward Optimal Accuracy per FLOP and Parameter in Mixture of Experts

Venmugil Elango, Nidhi Bhatia, Roger Waleffe +13

Mixture of Experts (MoEs) have become a central component of many state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary large language models. Despite their widespread adoption, it remains…

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

Nemotron-Cascade: Scaling Cascaded Reinforcement Learning for General-Purpose Reasoning Models

Boxin Wang, Chankyu Lee, Nayeon Lee +9

Building general-purpose reasoning models with reinforcement learning (RL) entails substantial cross-domain heterogeneity, including large variation in inference-time response leng…

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.…

eess.AS2025

Music Flamingo: Scaling Music Understanding in Audio Language Models

Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Lasha Koroshinadze +8

We introduce Music Flamingo, a novel large audio-language model designed to advance music (including song) understanding in foundational audio models. While audio-language research…

cs.LG2025

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano V2 VL

NVIDIA, :, Amala Sanjay Deshmukh +121

We introduce Nemotron Nano V2 VL, the latest model of the Nemotron vision-language series designed for strong real-world document understanding, long video comprehension, and reaso…

cs.SD2025

UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning

Jinchuan Tian, Sang-gil Lee, Zhifeng Kong +11

Recent advances in the audio language modeling (ALM) domain tackle audio understanding and text-to-audio generation as separate tasks. Very few studies attempt to unify these tasks…

cs.LG2025

RLP: Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective

Ali Hatamizadeh, Syeda Nahida Akter, Shrimai Prabhumoye +5

The dominant paradigm for training large reasoning models starts with pre-training using next-token prediction loss on vast amounts of data. Reinforcement learning, while powerful…

cs.LG2025

Front-Loading Reasoning: The Synergy between Pretraining and Post-Training Data

Syeda Nahida Akter, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Eric Nyberg +4

The prevailing paradigm for enhancing the reasoning abilities of LLMs revolves around post-training on high-quality, reasoning-intensive data. While emerging literature suggests th…