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Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation research paper by NVIDIA, 2026

NVIDIA · Mar 19, 2026 · Training and scaling · 39 citations · 70 upvotes · unverified

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Nemotron-Cascade 2 is a 30B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B activated parameters that achieves exceptional reasoning and agentic capabilities, matching frontier open models despite its compact size and demonstrating high intelligence density.

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About this paper
Authors
Zhuolin Yang, Zihan Liu, Yang Chen and 14 more
arXiv
2603.19220 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
39, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
70 · Hugging Face
Lab
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Influential citationsfirst count: 2Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 39Sep 25, 2026
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