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Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
Authors:
NVIDIA,
:,
Aaron Blakeman,
Aaron Thomas,
Aastha Jhunjhunwala,
Abhibha Gupta,
Abhinav Khattar,
Adam Rajfer,
Adi Renduchintala,
Adil Asif,
Aditya Vavre,
Adriana Flores Miranda,
Ahmad Bilal,
Aileen Zaman,
Ajay Hotchandani,
Akanksha Shukla,
Akhiad Bercovich,
Aleksander Ficek,
Alex Gronskiy,
Alex Kondratenko,
Alex Steiner,
Alex Ye,
Alexander Bukharin,
Alexandre Milesi,
Ali Taghibakhshi
, et al. (549 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
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 trillion text tokens, then extended the context length to 1M tokens, and post-trained using Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning (RL), and Multi-teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD). Nemotron 3 Ultra is o…
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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 trillion text tokens, then extended the context length to 1M tokens, and post-trained using Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning (RL), and Multi-teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD). Nemotron 3 Ultra is our most capable model yet, employing multiple key technologies - LatentMoE, Multi Token Prediction (MTP), NVFP4 pre-training, multi-environment RLVR, MOPD, and reasoning budget control. Nemotron 3 Ultra achieves up to ~6x higher inference throughput as compared to state-of-the-art publicly available LLMs while attaining on-par accuracy. The state-of-the-art accuracy, high inference throughput, and 1M token context length make Nemotron 3 Ultra ideal for long-running autonomous agentic tasks. We open-source the base, post-trained, and quantized checkpoints, along with the training data and recipe on HuggingFace.
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Submitted 12 June, 2026;
originally announced June 2026.
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Nemotron 3 Super: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
Authors:
NVIDIA,
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Aakshita Chandiramani,
Aaron Blakeman,
Abdullahi Olaoye,
Abhibha Gupta,
Abhilash Somasamudramath,
Abhinav Khattar,
Adeola Adesoba,
Adi Renduchintala,
Adil Asif,
Aditya Agrawal,
Aditya Vavre,
Ahmad Kiswani,
Aishwarya Padmakumar,
Ajay Hotchandani,
Akanksha Shukla,
Akhiad Bercovich,
Aleksander Ficek,
Aleksandr Shaposhnikov,
Alex Gronskiy,
Alex Kondratenko,
Alex Neefus,
Alex Steiner,
Alex Yang
, et al. (522 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
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. Nemotron 3 Super is the first model in the Nemotron 3 family to 1) be pre-trained in NVFP4, 2) leverage LatentMoE, a new Mixture-of-Experts architecture that optimizes for both accuracy per FLOP and accuracy per parameter, a…
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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. Nemotron 3 Super is the first model in the Nemotron 3 family to 1) be pre-trained in NVFP4, 2) leverage LatentMoE, a new Mixture-of-Experts architecture that optimizes for both accuracy per FLOP and accuracy per parameter, and 3) include MTP layers for inference acceleration through native speculative decoding. We pre-trained Nemotron 3 Super on 25 trillion tokens followed by post-training using supervised fine tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). The final model supports up to 1M context length and achieves comparable accuracy on common benchmarks, while also achieving up to 2.2x and 7.5x higher inference throughput compared to GPT-OSS-120B and Qwen3.5-122B, respectively. Nemotron 3 Super datasets, along with the base, post-trained, and quantized checkpoints, are open-sourced on HuggingFace.
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Submitted 14 April, 2026;
originally announced April 2026.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Efficient and Open Intelligence
Authors:
NVIDIA,
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Aaron Blakeman,
Aaron Grattafiori,
Aarti Basant,
Abhibha Gupta,
Abhinav Khattar,
Adi Renduchintala,
Aditya Vavre,
Akanksha Shukla,
Akhiad Bercovich,
Aleksander Ficek,
Aleksandr Shaposhnikov,
Alex Kondratenko,
Alexander Bukharin,
Alexandre Milesi,
Ali Taghibakhshi,
Alisa Liu,
Amelia Barton,
Ameya Sunil Mahabaleshwarkar,
Amir Klein,
Amit Zuker,
Amnon Geifman,
Amy Shen,
Anahita Bhiwandiwalla
, et al. (334 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
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 Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture to provide best-in-class throughput and context lengths of up to 1M tokens. Super and Ultra models are trained with NVFP4 and incorporate LatentMoE, a novel appro…
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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 Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture to provide best-in-class throughput and context lengths of up to 1M tokens. Super and Ultra models are trained with NVFP4 and incorporate LatentMoE, a novel approach that improves model quality. The two larger models also include MTP layers for faster text generation. All Nemotron 3 models are post-trained using multi-environment reinforcement learning enabling reasoning, multi-step tool use, and support granular reasoning budget control. Nano, the smallest model, outperforms comparable models in accuracy while remaining extremely cost-efficient for inference. Super is optimized for collaborative agents and high-volume workloads such as IT ticket automation. Ultra, the largest model, provides state-of-the-art accuracy and reasoning performance. Nano is released together with its technical report and this white paper, while Super and Ultra will follow in the coming months. We will openly release the model weights, pre- and post-training software, recipes, and all data for which we hold redistribution rights.
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Submitted 23 December, 2025;
originally announced December 2025.
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Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
Authors:
NVIDIA,
Felix Abecassis,
Anjulie Agrusa,
Dong Ahn,
Jonah Alben,
Stefania Alborghetti,
Michael Andersch,
Sivakumar Arayandi,
Alexis Bjorlin,
Aaron Blakeman,
Evan Briones,
Ian Buck,
Bryan Catanzaro,
Muya Chang,
Jinhang Choi,
Mike Chrzanowski,
Eric Chung,
Victor Cui,
Steve Dai,
Bita Darvish Rouhani,
Carlo del Mundo,
Deena Donia,
Burc Eryilmaz,
Henry Estela,
Abhinav Goel
, et al. (65 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
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 set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across the industry. Training a frontier model today requires on the order of tens to hundreds of yottaflops, which is a massive investment of time, compute…
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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 set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across the industry. Training a frontier model today requires on the order of tens to hundreds of yottaflops, which is a massive investment of time, compute, and energy. Improving pretraining efficiency is therefore essential to enable the next generation of even more capable LLMs. While 8-bit floating point (FP8) training is now widely adopted, transitioning to even narrower precision, such as 4-bit floating point (FP4), could unlock additional improvements in computational speed and resource utilization. However, quantization at this level poses challenges to training stability, convergence, and implementation, notably for large-scale models trained on long token horizons.
In this study, we introduce a novel approach for stable and accurate training of large language models (LLMs) using the NVFP4 format. Our method integrates Random Hadamard transforms (RHT) to bound block-level outliers, employs a two-dimensional quantization scheme for consistent representations across both the forward and backward passes, utilizes stochastic rounding for unbiased gradient estimation, and incorporates selective high-precision layers. We validate our approach by training a 12-billion-parameter model on 10 trillion tokens -- the longest publicly documented training run in 4-bit precision to date. Our results show that the model trained with our NVFP4-based pretraining technique achieves training loss and downstream task accuracies comparable to an FP8 baseline. These findings highlight that NVFP4, when combined with our training approach, represents a major step forward in narrow-precision LLM training algorithms.
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Submitted 4 March, 2026; v1 submitted 29 September, 2025;
originally announced September 2025.