Nemotron 3 Nano: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning research paper by NVIDIA, 2025
NVIDIA · Architectures · Dec 23, 2025 · 112 citations · 45 upvotes · unverified
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Nemotron 3 Nano is an efficient Mixture-of-Experts model that achieves high throughput and strong reasoning performance for agentic tasks.
By NVIDIA, Aaron Blakeman, Aaron Grattafiori and 310 more · arXiv 2512.20848 · PDF · Code
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- 112, 12 influential · Semantic Scholar
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- 45 · Hugging Face
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