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Nemotron-Flash: Towards Latency-Optimal Hybrid Small Language Models research paper by NVIDIA, 2025

NVIDIA · Nov 24, 2025 · Inference and efficiency · 18 citations · 37 upvotes · unverified

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The study identifies key architectural factors and efficient operators to optimize small language models for real-device latency, introducing the Nemotron-Flash family for improved accuracy and efficiency.

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About this paper
Authors
Yonggan Fu, Xin Dong, Shizhe Diao and 12 more
arXiv
2511.18890 · PDF
Venue
Neural Information Processing Systems
Citations
18, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
37 · Hugging Face
Lab
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