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

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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.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.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.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.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.…

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

Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4

NVIDIA, Felix Abecassis, Anjulie Agrusa +87

Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training…

cs.CL2025

Nemotron-CC-Math: A 133 Billion-Token-Scale High Quality Math Pretraining Dataset

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Sanjeev Satheesh, Shrimai Prabhumoye +3

Pretraining large language models (LLMs) on high-quality, structured data such as mathematics and code substantially enhances reasoning capabilities. However, existing math-focused…

cs.CL2025

AceReason-Nemotron 1.1: Advancing Math and Code Reasoning through SFT and RL Synergy

Zihan Liu, Zhuolin Yang, Yang Chen +4

In this work, we investigate the synergy between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) in developing strong reasoning models. We begin by curating the SFT tr…

cs.CL2025

From 128K to 4M: Efficient Training of Ultra-Long Context Large Language Models

Chejian Xu, Wei Ping, Peng Xu +5

Long-context capabilities are essential for a wide range of applications, including document and video understanding, in-context learning, and inference-time scaling, all of which…

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.CL2025

AceMath: Advancing Frontier Math Reasoning with Post-Training and Reward Modeling

Zihan Liu, Yang Chen, Mohammad Shoeybi +2

In this paper, we introduce AceMath, a suite of frontier math models that excel in solving complex math problems, along with highly effective reward models capable of evaluating ge…

cs.CL2024

Maximize Your Data's Potential: Enhancing LLM Accuracy with Two-Phase Pretraining

Steven Feng, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Kezhi Kong +4

Pretraining large language models effectively requires strategic data selection, blending and ordering. However, key details about data mixtures especially their scalability to lon…

cs.CL2024

Nemotron-CC: Transforming Common Crawl into a Refined Long-Horizon Pretraining Dataset

Dan Su, Kezhi Kong, Ying Lin +6

Recent English Common Crawl datasets like FineWeb-Edu and DCLM achieved significant benchmark gains via aggressive model-based filtering, but at the cost of removing 90% of data. T…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MM-Embed: Universal Multimodal Retrieval with Multimodal LLMs

Sheng-Chieh Lin, Chankyu Lee, Mohammad Shoeybi +3

State-of-the-art retrieval models typically address a straightforward search scenario, in which retrieval tasks are fixed (e.g., finding a passage to answer a specific question) an…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs

Wenliang Dai, Nayeon Lee, Boxin Wang +7

We introduce NVLM 1.0, a family of frontier-class multimodal large language models (LLMs) that achieve state-of-the-art results on vision-language tasks, rivaling the leading propr…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Upcycling Large Language Models into Mixture of Experts

Ethan He, Abhinav Khattar, Ryan Prenger +7

Upcycling pre-trained dense language models into sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models is an efficient approach to increase the model capacity of already trained models. However,…

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…