One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
Starting from Nemotron 3, our teams used supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and feedback-driven inference to create systems that reached gold-medal level at both IMO 2026 and IOI 2026.
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Key points
- Our recent results show that Nemotron is a strong, adaptable foundation for building world-class specialist models.
- Start with a strong Nemotron base model.
- Curate domain-specific problems and high-quality reasoning traces.
- Nemotron-3-Nano-CC, with 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters, received both SFT and RL.
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- [1]One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMOHugging Face Blog · Oct 7, 12:45 PM
Starting from Nemotron 3, our teams used supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and feedback-driven inference to create systems that reached gold-medal level at both IMO 2026 and IOI 2026.
Our recent results show that Nemotron is a strong, adaptable foundation for building world-class specialist models.
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