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Nemotron 3 Nano: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning

Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: 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 trillion new unique tokens over Nemotron 2, followed by supervised fine tuning and large-scale RL on diverse environments. Nemotron 3 Nano achieves better accuracy than our previous generation Nemotron 2 Nano while activating less than half of the parameters per forward pass. It achieves up to 3.3x higher inference throughput than similarly-sized open models like GPT-OSS-20B and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, while also being more accurate on popular benchmarks. Nemotron 3 Nano demonstrates enhanced agentic, reasoning, and chat abilities and supports context lengths up to 1M tokens. We release both our pretrained Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B Base and post-trained Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B checkpoints on Hugging Face.
Authors: NVIDIA, :, Blakeman, Aaron, Grattafiori, Aaron, Basant, Aarti, Gupta, Abhibha, Khattar, Abhinav, Renduchintala, Adi, Vavre, Aditya, Shukla, Akanksha, Bercovich, Akhiad, Ficek, Aleksander, Shaposhnikov, Aleksandr, Kondratenko, Alex, Bukharin, Alexander, Milesi, Alexandre, Taghibakhshi, Ali, Liu, Alisa, Barton, Amelia, Mahabaleshwarkar, Ameya Sunil, Klein, Amir, Zuker, Amit, Geifman, Amnon, Shen, Amy, Bhiwandiwalla, Anahita, Tao, Andrew, Guan, Ann, Mandarwal, Anubhav, Mehta, Arham, Aithal, Ashwath, Poojary, Ashwin, Ahamed, Asif, Thekkumpate, Asma Kuriparambil, Dattagupta, Ayush, Zhu, Banghua, Sadeghi, Bardiya, Simkin, Barnaby, Lanir, Ben, Schifferer, Benedikt, Nushi, Besmira, Kartal, Bilal, Rouhani, Bita Darvish, Ginsburg, Boris, Norick, Brandon, Soubasis, Brandon, Kisacanin, Branislav, Yu, Brian, Catanzaro, Bryan, del Mundo, Carlo, Hwang, Chantal, Wang, Charles, Hsieh, Cheng-Ping, Zhang, Chenghao, Yu, Chenhan, Mungekar, Chetan, Patel, Chintan, Alexiuk, Chris, Parisien, Christopher, Neale, Collin, Mosk-Aoyama, Damon, Su, Dan, Corneil, Dane, Afrimi, Daniel, Rohrer, Daniel, Serebrenik, Daniel, Gitman, Daria, Levy, Daria, Stosic, Darko, Mosallanezhad, David, Narayanan, Deepak, Nathawani, Dhruv, Rekesh, Dima, Yared, Dina, Kakwani, Divyanshu, Ahn, Dong, Riach, Duncan, Stosic, Dusan, Minasyan, Edgar, Lin, Edward, Long, Eileen, Long, Eileen Peters, Lantz, Elena, Evans, Ellie, Ning, Elliott, Chung, Eric, Harper, Eric, Tramel, Eric, Galinkin, Erick, Pounds, Erik, Briones, Evan, Bakhturina, Evelina, Ladhak, Faisal, Wang, Fay, Jia, Fei, Soares, Felipe, Chen, Feng, Galko, Ferenc, Siino, Frankie, Agam, Gal Hubara, Ajjanagadde, Ganesh, Bhatt, Gantavya, Prasad, Gargi, Armstrong, George, Shen, Gerald, Batmaz, Gorkem, Nalbandyan, Grigor, Qian, Haifeng, Sharma, Harsh, Ross, Hayley, Ngo, Helen, Sahota, Herman, Wang, Hexin, Soni, Himanshu, Upadhyay, Hiren, Mao, Huizi, Nguyen, Huy C, Nguyen, Huy Q, Cunningham, Iain, Shahaf, Ido, Gitman, Igor, Loshchilov, Ilya, Moshkov, Ivan, Putterman, Izzy, Kautz, Jan, Scowcroft, Jane Polak, Casper, Jared, Mitra, Jatin, Glick, Jeffrey, Chen, Jenny, Oliver, Jesse, Zhang, Jian, Zeng, Jiaqi, Lou, Jie, Zhang, Jimmy, Huang, Jining, Conway, Joey, Guman, Joey, Kamalu, John, Greco, Johnny, Cohen, Jonathan, Jennings, Joseph, Daw, Joyjit, Vialard, Julien Veron, Yi, Junkeun, Parmar, Jupinder, Xu, Kai, Zhu, Kan, Briski, Kari, Cheung, Katherine, Luna, Katherine, Santhanam, Keshav, Shih, Kevin, Kong, Kezhi, Bhardwaj, Khushi, Puvvada, Krishna C., Pawelec, Krzysztof, Anik, Kumar, McAfee, Lawrence, Sleiman, Laya, Derczynski, Leon, Ding, Li, Liebenwein, Lucas, Vega, Luis, Grover, Maanu, Van Segbroeck, Maarten, de Melo, Maer Rodrigues, Sreedhar, Makesh Narsimhan, Kilaru, Manoj, Ashkenazi, Maor, Romeijn, Marc, Cai, Mark, Kliegl, Markus, Moosaei, Maryam, Novikov, Matvei, Samadi, Mehrzad, Corpuz, Melissa, Wang, Mengru, Price, Meredith, Boone, Michael, Evans, Michael, Martinez, Miguel, Chrzanowski, Mike, Shoeybi, Mohammad, Patwary, Mostofa, Mulepati, Nabin, Hereth, Natalie, Assaf, Nave, Habibi, Negar, Zmora, Neta, Haber, Netanel, Sessions, Nicola, Bhatia, Nidhi, Jukar, Nikhil, Pope, Nikki, Ludwig, Nikolai, Tajbakhsh, Nima, Juluru, Nirmal, Hrinchuk, Oleksii, Kuchaiev, Oleksii, Delalleau, Olivier, Olabiyi, Oluwatobi, Argov, Omer Ullman, Xie, Ouye, Chadha, Parth, Shamis, Pasha, Molchanov, Pavlo, Morkisz, Pawel, Dykas, Peter, Jin, Peter, Xu, Pinky, Januszewski, Piotr, Thombre, Pranav Prashant, Varshney, Prasoon, Gundecha, Pritam, Miao, Qing, Mahabadi, Rabeeh Karimi, El-Yaniv, Ran, Zilberstein, Ran, Shafipour, Rasoul, Harang, Rich, Izzo, Rick, Shahbazyan, Rima, Garg, Rishabh, Borkar, Ritika, Gala, Ritu, Islam, Riyad, Waleffe, Roger, Watve, Rohit, Koren, Roi, Zhang, Ruoxi, Hewett, Russell J., Prenger, Ryan, Timbrook, Ryan, Mahdavi, Sadegh, Modi, Sahil, Kriman, Samuel, Kariyappa, Sanjay, Satheesh, Sanjeev, Kaji, Saori, Pasumarthi, Satish, Narentharen, Sean, Narenthiran, Sean, Bak, Seonmyeong, Kashirsky, Sergey, Poulos, Seth, Mor, Shahar, Ramasamy, Shanmugam, Acharya, Shantanu, Ghosh, Shaona, Sreenivas, Sharath Turuvekere, Thomas, Shelby, Fan, Shiqing, Gopal, Shreya, Prabhumoye, Shrimai, Pachori, Shubham, Toshniwal, Shubham, Ding, Shuoyang, Singh, Siddharth, Sun, Simeng, Ithape, Smita, Majumdar, Somshubra, Singhal, Soumye, Alborghetti, Stefania, Ge, Stephen, Devare, Sugam Dipak, Barua, Sumeet Kumar, Panguluri, Suseella, Gupta, Suyog, Priyadarshi, Sweta, Akter, Syeda Nahida, Bui, Tan, Ene, Teodor-Dumitru, Kong, Terry, Do, Thanh, Blankevoort, Tijmen, Balough, Tom, Asida, Tomer, Natan, Tomer Bar, Konuk, Tugrul, Vashishth, Twinkle, Karpas, Udi, De, Ushnish, Noorozi, Vahid, Noroozi, Vahid, Srinivasan, Venkat, Elango, Venmugil, Korthikanti, Vijay, Kurin, Vitaly, Lavrukhin, Vitaly, Jiang, Wanli, Ahmad, Wasi Uddin, Du, Wei, Ping, Wei, Zhou, Wenfei, Jennings, Will, Zhang, William, Prazuch, Wojciech, Ren, Xiaowei, Karnati, Yashaswi, Choi, Yejin, Meyer, Yev, Wu, Yi-Fu, Zhang, Yian, Lin, Ying, Geifman, Yonatan, Fu, Yonggan, Subara, Yoshi, Suhara, Yoshi, Gao, Yubo, Moshe, Zach, Dong, Zhen, Liu, Zihan, Chen, Zijia, Yan, Zijie
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7117305506
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