Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Reasoning Models
We introduce the Llama-Nemotron series of models, an open family of
heterogeneous reasoning models that deliver exceptional reasoning capabilities,
inference efficiency, and an open license for enterprise use. The family comes
in three sizes -- Nano (8B), Super (49B), and Ultra (253B) -- and performs
competitively with state-of-the-art reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 while
offering superior inference throughput and memory efficiency. In this report,
we discuss the training procedure for these models, which entails using neural
architecture search from Llama 3 models for accelerated inference, knowledge
distillation, and continued pretraining, followed by a reasoning-focused
post-training stage consisting of two main parts: supervised fine-tuning and
large scale reinforcement learning. Llama-Nemotron models are the first
open-source models to support a dynamic reasoning toggle, allowing users to
switch between standard chat and reasoning modes during inference. To further
support open research and facilitate model development, we provide the
following resources: 1. We release the Llama-Nemotron reasoning models --
LN-Nano, LN-Super, and LN-Ultra -- under the commercially permissive NVIDIA
Open Model License Agreement. 2. We release the complete post-training dataset:
Llama-Nemotron-Post-Training-Dataset. 3. We also release our training
codebases: NeMo, NeMo-Aligner, and Megatron-LM.
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Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Reasoning Models
We introduce the Llama-Nemotron series of models, an open family of
heterogeneous reasoning models that deliver exceptional reasoning capabilities,
inference efficiency, and an open license for enterprise use. The family comes
in three sizes -- Nano (8B), Super (49B), and Ultra (253B) -- and performs
competitively with state-of-the-art reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 while
offering superior inference throughput and memory efficiency. In this report,
we discuss the training procedure for these models, which entails using neural
architecture search from Llama 3 models for accelerated inference, knowledge
distillation, and continued pretraining, followed by a reasoning-focused
post-training stage consisting of two main parts: supervised fine-tuning and
large scale reinforcement learning. Llama-Nemotron models are the first
open-source models to support a dynamic reasoning toggle, allowing users to
switch between standard chat and reasoning modes during inference. To further
support open research and facilitate model development, we provide the
following resources: 1. We release the Llama-Nemotron reasoning models --
LN-Nano, LN-Super, and LN-Ultra -- under the commercially permissive NVIDIA
Open Model License Agreement. 2. We release the complete post-training dataset:
Llama-Nemotron-Post-Training-Dataset. 3. We also release our training
codebases: NeMo, NeMo-Aligner, and Megatron-LM.
Llama-Nemotron models offer exceptional reasoning capabilities, inference efficiency, and open licensing through neural architecture search, knowledge distillation, and reasoning-focused post-training, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
neural architecture search knowledge distillation supervised fine-tuning reinforcement learning dynamic reasoning toggle