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Nvidia's Nemotron Models Achieve Top Scores in AI Competitions
Researchers from Nvidia have detailed their process of fine-tuning Nemotron foundation models, utilizing supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with generate-verify-refine inference. This approach yielded gold-medal results in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2026 and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2026. Their method involved curating domain-specific data and employing test-time reasoning to iteratively improve solutions. Nvidia has shared the training datasets, checkpoints, and evaluation tools on Hugging Face.
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