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Nemotron-Elastic-12B

Nemotron Elastic

Model Developer: NVIDIA

Model Dates:

November 2025

Data Freshness:

September 2024

The pretraining data has a cutoff date of September 2024.

Model Overview

NVIDIA Nemotron-Elastic-12B is a large language model (LLM) developed by NVIDIA for research purposes. This model uses a hybrid architecture consisting primarily of Mamba-2 and MLP layers combined with just four Attention layers, designed to enable elastic inference through nested model extraction.

The model was post-trained from NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, incorporating advanced reasoning capabilities and optimized for mathematical and scientific reasoning tasks.

A key innovation of this model is its Elastic Architecture, which enables the extraction of smaller, nested variants (6B and 9B parameters) from the same parameter space without requiring separate training runs.

This model is for research and development only.

The figure below illustrates the overall training and deployment pipelines of Nemotron-Elastic.

Elastic Overview

This approach provides significant advantages over traditional model compression methods:

Cost Efficiency Benefits

Training Token Savings: Nemotron Elastic achieves a 7.2ร— reduction in training tokens compared to traditional compression methods. While approaches like Minitron require separate exploratory and knowledge distillation phases for each target size (750B tokens for 6B+9B variants), Nemotron Elastic trains all variants simultaneously in a single run requiring only 110B tokens.

Deployment Memory Efficiency: The nested weight-sharing architecture provides substantial memory advantages. Deploying all three model variants (6B, 9B, and 12B) requires only 24GB memory - equivalent to storing just the 12B model alone. This represents a 42% memory reduction compared to storing separate 9B and 12B checkpoints (42GB), while providing an additional 6B variant at no extra cost.

Configuration Models Total Memory (BF16)
Nemotron Elastic 6B + 9B + 12B 24 GB
NanoV2 9B + 12B 42 GB

Scalable Architecture: Unlike traditional compression methods (such as Minitron-SSM, which was used to create the 9B variant from the 12B NanoV2 model) where costs scale linearly with the number of target model sizes, Nemotron Elastic maintains approximately constant training and memory overhead regardless of how many nested variants are extracted. This scalability makes it particularly valuable for edge deployment scenarios that require multiple model sizes to handle varying workloads or user-selected quality-latency tradeoffs.

Elastic Scalability

License/Terms of Use

GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Internal Scientific Research and Development Model License

Model Architecture

  • Architecture Type: Mamba2-Transformer Hybrid
  • Network Architecture: Nemotron-Hybrid
  • Number of Parameters: 12B Elastic (encapsulates 6B and 9B)

Deployment Geography: Global

Use Case: This model is intended for researchers studying elastic inference, hybrid architectures, mathematical reasoning, and AI systems that require flexible computational resource allocation.

Release Date:

Huggingface: 11/19/2025 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-Elastic-12B

Elastic Model Variants

The Nemotron-Elastic-12B model supports extraction of smaller nested variants:

  • Nemotron-Elastic-6B: 6B parameter variant extracted from the 12B model
  • Nemotron-Elastic-9B: 9B parameter variant extracted from the 12B model

These variants are extracted using the provided slicing script at slice_nemotron_elastic.py.

Input

  • Input Type(s): Text
  • Input Format(s): String
  • Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D): Sequences
  • Other Properties Related to Input: Context length up to 128K. Supported languages include English and multilingual capabilities.

Output

  • Output Type(s): Text
  • Output Format: String
  • Output Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D): Sequences up to 128K

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

Software Integration

  • Runtime Engine(s): HF
  • Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility: NVIDIA H100-80GB
  • Operating System(s): Linux

The integration of foundation and fine-tuned models into AI systems requires additional testing using use-case-specific data to ensure safe and effective deployment. Following the V-model methodology, iterative testing and validation at both unit and system levels are essential to mitigate risks, meet technical and functional requirements, and ensure compliance with safety and ethical standards before deployment.

Model Version

  • v1.0

Prompt Format

We follow the jinja chat template provided below. This template conditionally adds <think>\n to the start of the Assistant response if /think is found in either the system prompt or any user message. If no reasoning signal is added, the model defaults to reasoning "on" mode. The chat template adds <think></think> to the start of the Assistant response if /no_think is found in the system prompt. Thus enforcing reasoning on/off behavior.

{%- set ns = namespace(enable_thinking = true) %}
{%- for message in messages -%}
    {%- set content = message['content'] -%}
    {%- if message['role'] == 'user' or message['role'] == 'system' -%}
        {%- if '/think' in content -%}
            {%- set ns.enable_thinking = true -%}
        {%- elif '/no_think' in content -%}
            {%- set ns.enable_thinking = false -%}
        {%- endif -%}
    {%- endif -%}
{%- endfor -%}
{%- if messages[0]['role'] != 'system' -%}
    {%- set ns.non_tool_system_content = '' -%}
    {{- '<SPECIAL_10>System\n' -}}
{%- else -%}
    {%- set ns.non_tool_system_content = messages[0]['content']
        .replace('/think', '')
        .replace('/no_think', '')
        .strip()
    -%}
    {{- '<SPECIAL_10>System\n' + ns.non_tool_system_content }}
{%- endif -%}
{%- if tools -%}
    {%- if ns.non_tool_system_content is defined and ns.non_tool_system_content != '' -%}
        {{- '\n\n' -}}
    {%- endif -%}
    {{- 'You can use the following tools to assist the user if required:' -}}
    {{- '\n<AVAILABLE_TOOLS>[' -}}
    {%- for tool in tools -%}
        {{- (tool.function if tool.function is defined else tool) | tojson -}}
        {{- ', ' if not loop.last else '' -}}
    {%- endfor -%}
    {{- ']</AVAILABLE_TOOLS>\n\n' -}}
    {{- 'If you decide to call any tool(s), use the following format:\n' -}}
    {{- '<TOOLCALL>[{{"name": "tool_name1", "arguments": "tool_args1"}}, ' -}}
    {{- '{{"name": "tool_name2", "arguments": "tool_args2"}}]</TOOLCALL>\n\n' -}}
    {{- 'The user will execute tool-calls and return responses from tool(s) in this format:\n' -}}
    {{- '<TOOL_RESPONSE>[{{"tool_response1"}}, {{"tool_response2"}}]</TOOL_RESPONSE>\n\n' -}}
    {{- 'Based on the tool responses, you can call additional tools if needed, correct tool calls if any errors are found, or just respond to the user.' -}}
{%- endif -%}
{{- '\n' -}}
{%- set messages = messages[1:] if messages[0]['role'] == 'system' else messages -%}
{%- if messages[-1]['role'] == 'assistant' -%}
    {%- set ns.last_turn_assistant_content = messages[-1]['content'].strip() -%}
    {%- set messages = messages[:-1] -%}
{%- endif -%}
{%- for message in messages -%}
    {%- set content = message['content'] -%}
    {%- if message['role'] == 'user' -%}
        {{- '<SPECIAL_11>User\n' + content.replace('/think', '').replace('/no_think', '').strip() + '\n' }}
    {%- elif message['role'] == 'tool' -%}
        {%- if loop.first or (messages[loop.index0 - 1].role != 'tool') -%}
            {{- '<SPECIAL_11>User\n' + '<TOOL_RESPONSE>[' }}
        {%- endif -%}
        {{- message['content'] -}}
        {{- ', ' if not loop.last and (messages[loop.index0 + 1].role == 'tool') else '' -}}
        {%- if loop.last or (messages[loop.index0 + 1].role != 'tool') -%}
            {{- ']</TOOL_RESPONSE>\n' -}}
        {%- endif -%}
    {%- elif message['role'] == 'assistant' -%}
        {%- if '</think>' in content -%}
            {%- set content = content.split('</think>')[1].strip() %}
        {%- endif -%}
        {{- '<SPECIAL_11>Assistant\n' + content.strip() }}
        {%- if message.tool_calls -%}
            {%- if content.strip() != '' -%}
                {{- '\n\n' -}}
            {%- endif -%}
            {{- '<TOOLCALL>[' -}}
            {%- for call in message.tool_calls -%}
                {%- set fn = call.function if call.function is defined else call -%}
                {{- '{"name": "' + fn.name + '", "arguments": ' -}}
                {%- if fn.arguments is string -%}
                    {{- fn.arguments -}}
                {%- else -%}
                    {{- fn.arguments | tojson -}}
                {%- endif -%}
                {{- '}' + (', ' if not loop.last else '') -}}
            {%- endfor -%}
            {{- ']</TOOLCALL>' -}}
        {%- endif -%}
        {{- '\n<SPECIAL_12>\n' -}}
    {%- endif -%}
{%- endfor -%}
{%- if add_generation_prompt -%}
    {{- '<SPECIAL_11>Assistant\n' -}}
    {%- if ns.enable_thinking is defined and ns.enable_thinking is false -%}
        {{- '<think></think>' -}}
    {%- else -%}
        {{- '<think>\n' -}}
    {%- endif -%}
    {%- if ns.last_turn_assistant_content is defined and ns.last_turn_assistant_content != '' -%}
        {{- ns.last_turn_assistant_content -}}
    {%- endif -%}
{%- else -%}
    {%- if ns.last_turn_assistant_content is defined and ns.last_turn_assistant_content != '' -%}
        {{- '<SPECIAL_11>Assistant\n' -}}
        {%- if ns.enable_thinking is defined and ns.enable_thinking is false -%}
            {{- '<think></think>' -}}
        {%- else -%}
            {{- '<think>\n' -}}
        {%- endif -%}
        {{- ns.last_turn_assistant_content -}}
        {%- if continue_final_message is defined -%}
            {%- if continue_final_message is false -%}
                {{- '\n<SPECIAL_12>\n' -}}
            {%- endif -%}
        {%- else -%}
            {{- '\n<SPECIAL_12>\n' -}}
        {%- endif -%}
    {%- endif -%}
{%- endif -%}

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets

Training datasets

  • Data Modality: Text
  • Text Training Data Size: More than 10 Trillion Tokens
  • Train/Test/Valid Split: We used 100% of the corpus for pre-training and relied on external benchmarks for testing.
  • Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic
  • Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic

Properties: The post-training corpus for NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 consists of English and multilingual text (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and English). Our sources cover a variety of document types such as: webpages, dialogue, articles, and other written materials. The corpus spans domains including code, legal, math, science, finance, and more. We also include a small portion of question-answering, and alignment style data to improve model accuracies. For several of the domains listed above we used synthetic data, specifically reasoning traces, from DeepSeek R1/R1-0528, Qwen3-235B-A22B, Nemotron 4 340B, Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-AWQ, Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct, Qwen 2.5 72B.

The pre-training corpus for NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 consists of high-quality curated and synthetically-generated data. It is trained in the English language, as well as 15 multilingual languages and 43 programming languages. Our sources cover a variety of document types such as: webpages, dialogue, articles, and other written materials. The corpus spans domains including legal, math, science, finance, and more. We also include a small portion of question-answering, and alignment style data to improve model accuracy. The model was pre-trained for approximately twenty trillion tokens.

Alongside the model, we release our final pretraining data, as outlined in this section. For ease of analysis, there is a sample set that is ungated. For all remaining code, math and multilingual data, gating and approval is required, and the dataset is permissively licensed for model training purposes.

More details on the datasets and synthetic data generation methods can be found in the technical report NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2: An Accurate and Efficient Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Reasoning Model .

Public Datasets

Dataset Collection Period
Problems in Elementary Mathematics for Home Study 4/23/2025
GSM8K 4/23/2025
PRM800K 4/23/2025
CC-NEWS 4/23/2025
Common Crawl 4/23/2025
Wikimedia 4/23/2025
Bespoke-Stratos-17k 4/23/2025
tigerbot-kaggle-leetcodesolutions-en-2k 4/23/2025
glaive-function-calling-v2 4/23/2025
APIGen Function-Calling 4/23/2025
LMSYS-Chat-1M 4/23/2025
Open Textbook Library - CC BY-SA & GNU subset and OpenStax - CC BY-SA subset 4/23/2025
Advanced Reasoning Benchmark, tigerbot-kaggle-leetcodesolutions-en-2k, PRM800K, and SciBench 4/23/2025
FineWeb-2 4/23/2025
Court Listener Legacy Download
peS2o Legacy Download
OpenWebMath Legacy Download
BioRxiv Legacy Download
PMC Open Access Subset Legacy Download
OpenWebText2 Legacy Download
Stack Exchange Data Dump Legacy Download
PubMed Abstracts Legacy Download
NIH ExPorter Legacy Download
arXiv Legacy Download
BigScience Workshop Datasets Legacy Download
Reddit Dataset Legacy Download
SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) Legacy Download
Public Software Heritage S3 Legacy Download
The Stack Legacy Download
mC4 Legacy Download
Advanced Mathematical Problem Solving Legacy Download
MathPile Legacy Download
NuminaMath CoT Legacy Download
PMC Article Legacy Download
FLAN Legacy Download
Advanced Reasoning Benchmark Legacy Download
SciBench Legacy Download
WikiTableQuestions Legacy Download
FinQA Legacy Download
Riddles Legacy Download
Problems in Elementary Mathematics for Home Study Legacy Download
MedMCQA Legacy Download
Cosmos QA Legacy Download
MCTest Legacy Download
AI2's Reasoning Challenge Legacy Download
OpenBookQA Legacy Download
MMLU Auxiliary Train Legacy Download
social-chemestry-101 Legacy Download
Moral Stories Legacy Download
The Common Pile v0.1 Legacy Download
FineMath Legacy Download
MegaMath Legacy Download
FastChat 6/30/2025

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets of Third Parties

Dataset
Global Regulation
Workbench

Online Dataset Sources

The English Common Crawl data was downloaded from the Common Crawl Foundation (see their FAQ for details on their crawling) and includes the snapshots CC-MAIN-2013-20 through CC-MAIN-2025-13. The data was subsequently deduplicated and filtered in various ways described in the Nemotron-CC paper.

Additionally, we extracted data for fifteen languages from the following three Common Crawl snapshots: CC-MAIN-2024-51, CC-MAIN-2025-08, CC-MAIN-2025-18. The fifteen languages included were Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Thai. As we did not have reliable multilingual model-based quality classifiers available, we applied just heuristic filtering insteadโ€”similar to what we did for lower quality English data in the Nemotron-CC pipeline, but selectively removing some filters for some languages that did not work well. Deduplication was done in the same way as for Nemotron-CC.

The GitHub Crawl was collected using the GitHub REST API and the Amazon S3 API. Each crawl was operated in accordance with the rate limits set by its respective source, either GitHub or S3. We collect raw source code and subsequently remove any having a license which does not exist in our permissive-license set (for additional details, refer to the technical report).

Dataset Modality Dataset Size (Tokens) Collection Period
English Common Crawl Text 3.360T 4/8/2025
Multilingual Common Crawl Text 812.7B 5/1/2025
GitHub Crawl Text 747.4B 4/29/2025

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets

Dataset Modality Dataset Size (Tokens) Seed Dataset Model(s) used for generation
Synthetic Art of Problem Solving from DeepSeek-R1 Text 25.5B Art of Problem Solving; American Mathematics Competitions 8; American Mathematics Competitions 10; DeepSeek-R1
Synthetic Moral Stories and Social Chemistry from Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1 Text 327M social-chemestry-101; Moral Stories Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1
Synthetic Social Sciences seeded with OpenStax from DeepSeek-V3, Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1, and Qwen2.5-72B Text 83.6M OpenStax - CC BY-SA subset DeepSeek-V3; Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1; Qwen2.5-72B
Synthetic Health Sciences seeded with OpenStax from DeepSeek-V3, Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1, and Qwen2.5-72B Text 9.7M OpenStax - CC BY-SA subset DeepSeek-V3; Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1; Qwen2.5-72B
Synthetic STEM seeded with OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and GSM8K from DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-V3-0324, and Qwen2.5-72B Text 175M OpenStax - CC BY-SA subset; GSM8K; Open Textbook Library - CC BY-SA & GNU subset DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3; DeepSeek-V3-0324; Qwen2.5-72B
Nemotron-PrismMath Text 4.6B Big-Math-RL-Verified; OpenR1-Math-220k Qwen2.5-0.5B-instruct, Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct; DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Synthetic Question Answering Data from Papers and Permissible Books from Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct Text 350M arXiv; National Institutes of Health ExPorter; BioRxiv; PMC Article; USPTO Backgrounds; peS2o; Global Regulation; CORE; PG-19; DOAB CC BY & CC BY-SA subset; NDLTD Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Synthetic FineMath-4+ Reprocessed from DeepSeek-V3 Text 9.2B Common Crawl DeepSeek-V3
Synthetic FineMath-3+ Reprocessed from phi-4 Text 27.6B Common Crawl phi-4
Synthetic Union-3+ Reprocessed from phi-4 Text 93.1B Common Crawl phi-4
Refreshed Nemotron-MIND from phi-4 Text 73B Common Crawl phi-4
Synthetic Union-4+ Reprocessed from phi-4 Text 14.12B Common Crawl phi-4
Synthetic Union-3+ minus 4+ Reprocessed from phi-4 Text 78.95B Common Crawl phi-4
Synthetic Union-3 Refreshed from phi-4 Text 80.94B Common Crawl phi-4
Synthetic Union-4+ Refreshed from phi-4 Text 52.32B Common Crawl phi-4
Synthetic AGIEval seeded with AQUA-RAT, LogiQA, and AR-LSAT from DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-V3-0324 Text 4.0B AQUA-RAT; LogiQA; AR-LSAT DeepSeek-V3; DeepSeek-V3-0324
Synthetic AGIEval seeded with AQUA-RAT, LogiQA, and AR-LSAT from Qwen3-30B-A3B Text 4.2B AQUA-RAT; LogiQA; AR-LSAT Qwen3-30B-A3B
Synthetic Art of Problem Solving from Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct, Qwen2.5-Math-72B, Qwen2.5-Math-7B, and Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct Text 83.1B Art of Problem Solving; American Mathematics Competitions 8; American Mathematics Competitions 10; GSM8K; PRM800K Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct; Qwen2.5-Math-72B; Qwen2.5-Math-7B; Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Synthetic MMLU Auxiliary Train from DeepSeek-R1 Text 0.5B MMLU Auxiliary Train DeepSeek-R1
Synthetic Long Context Continued Post-Training Data from Papers and Permissible Books from Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct Text 5.4B arXiv; National Institutes of Health ExPorter; BioRxiv; PMC Article; USPTO Backgrounds; peS2o; Global Regulation; CORE; PG-19; DOAB CC BY & CC BY-SA subset; NDLTD Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Synthetic Common Crawl from Qwen3-30B-A3B and Mistral-Nemo-12B-Instruct Text 1.949T Common Crawl Qwen3-30B-A3B; Mistral-NeMo-12B-Instruct
Synthetic Multilingual Data from Common Crawl from Qwen3-30B-A3B Text 997.3B Common Crawl Qwen3-30B-A3B
Synthetic Multilingual Data from Wikimedia from Qwen3-30B-A3B Text 55.1B Wikimedia Qwen3-30B-A3B
Synthetic OpenMathReasoning from DeepSeek-R1-0528 Text 1.5M OpenMathReasoning DeepSeek-R1-0528
Synthetic OpenCodeReasoning from DeepSeek-R1-0528 Text 1.1M OpenCodeReasoning DeepSeek-R1-0528
Synthetic Science Data from DeepSeek-R1-0528 Text 1.5M - DeepSeek-R1-0528
Synthetic Humanity's Last Exam from DeepSeek-R1-0528 Text 460K Humanity's Last Exam DeepSeek-R1-0528
Synthetic ToolBench from Qwen3-235B-A22B Text 400K ToolBench Qwen3-235B-A22B
Synthetic Nemotron Content Safety Dataset V2, eval-safety, Gretel Synthetic Safety Alignment, and RedTeam_2K from DeepSeek-R1-0528 Text 52K Nemotron Content Safety Dataset V2; eval-safety; Gretel Synthetic Safety Alignment; RedTeam_2K DeepSeek-R1-0528
Synthetic HelpSteer from Qwen3-235B-A22B Text 120K HelpSteer3; HelpSteer2 Qwen3-235B-A22B
Synthetic Alignment data from Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1, Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1, and Nemotron-4 Family Text 400K HelpSteer2; C4; LMSYS-Chat-1M; ShareGPT52K; tigerbot-kaggle-leetcodesolutions-en-2k; GSM8K; PRM800K; lm_identity (NVIDIA internal); FinQA; WikiTableQuestions; Riddles; ChatQA nvolve-multiturn (NVIDIA internal); glaive-function-calling-v2; SciBench; OpenBookQA; Advanced Reasoning Benchmark; Public Software Heritage S3; Khan Academy Math Keywords Nemotron-4-15B-Base (NVIDIA internal); Nemotron-4-15B-Instruct (NVIDIA internal); Nemotron-4-340B-Base; Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct; Nemotron-4-340B-Reward; Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1; Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1
Synthetic LMSYS-Chat-1M from Qwen3-235B-A22B Text 1M LMSYS-Chat-1M Qwen3-235B-A22B
Synthetic Multilingual Reasoning data from DeepSeek-R1-0528, Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-AWQ, and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct Text 25M OpenMathReasoning; OpenCodeReasoning DeepSeek-R1-0528; Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-AWQ (translation); Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct (translation);
Synthetic Multilingual Reasoning data from Qwen3-235B-A22B and Gemma 3 Post-Trained models Text 5M WildChat Qwen3-235B-A22B; Gemma 3 PT 12B; Gemma 3 PT 27B

Evaluation Dataset:

  • Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Synthetic
  • Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic

Benchmark Results

Reasoning Evaluations (Reasoning ON)

The following table shows performance across key reasoning and mathematical benchmarks. All Nemotron-Elastic variants and Nanov2 baselines represent checkpoints at the end of 49k context distillation run (prior to RL and checkpoint merging). Other models represents the final, public version.

Elastic Model Accuracy

The accuracy shown is the average across all benchmarks: MATH-500, AIME-2024, AIME-2025, GPQA, LiveCodeBench v5, and MMLU-Pro.

Benchmark Descriptions:

  • MATH-500: A subset of 500 questions from the MATH benchmark testing mathematical problem-solving capabilities.
  • AIME-2024/2025: American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced mathematical reasoning.
  • GPQA: Graduate-level Google-Proof Q&A dataset testing scientific reasoning.
  • LiveCodeBench v5: Real-world coding problems testing programming and algorithmic thinking.
  • MMLU-Pro: Enhanced version of MMLU testing knowledge across multiple domains.

Elastic Model Extraction

The model supports extraction of nested variants using the provided slicing script:

python slice_nemotron_elastic.py \
    --model_path <path to 12b model> \
    --slice_size 6b \
    --save_path ./nemotron-elastic-6b

python slice_nemotron_elastic.py \
    --model_path <path to 12b model> \
    --slice_size 9b \
    --save_path ./nemotron-elastic-9b

The slicing process preserves the hybrid architecture while reducing model size through structured pruning of embedding dimensions and MLP layers.

Potential Known Risks for Usage

The model was trained on data that contains toxic language, unsafe content, and societal biases originally crawled from the internet. Therefore, the model may amplify those biases and return toxic responses especially when prompted with toxic prompts. The model may generate answers that may be inaccurate, omit key information, or include irrelevant or redundant text producing socially unacceptable or undesirable text, even if the prompt itself does not include anything explicitly offensive. Code produced by the model may not always model real-world contexts and should be checked. The model demonstrates weakness to alignment-breaking attacks. Users are advised to deploy language model guardrails alongside this model to prevent potentially harmful outputs.

Ethical Considerations

NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. When downloaded or used in accordance with our terms of service, developers should work with their internal model team to ensure this model meets requirements for the relevant industry and use case and addresses unforeseen product misuse.

For more detailed information on ethical considerations for this model, please see the Responsible Use Guide available at http://nvidia.com/nemotron-responsible-use.

Please report security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI Concerns here.

Research Applications

This model is particularly suitable for research in:

  • Elastic Inference: Studying adaptive model sizing based on computational constraints
  • Hybrid Architectures: Exploring the combination of Mamba-2 and Transformer layers
  • Model Compression: Understanding structured pruning and nested model extraction
  • Resource-Adaptive AI: Developing systems that can scale computational requirements dynamically

Citation

@misc{nemotron-elastic-12b-2025,
  title={Nemotron Elastic},
  author={NVIDIA},
  year={2025},
  note={Research release for studying elastic inference and hybrid architectures}
}

Example Usage

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

# Load the tokenizer and model (full 12B version)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nvidia/Nemotron-Elastic-12B", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("nvidia/Nemotron-Elastic-12B", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, trust_remote_code=True).cuda()

# Use the prompt template
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful mathematical reasoning assistant"},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Solve the following equation: 2x + 5 = 15"},
]
tokenized_chat = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(tokenized_chat, max_new_tokens=512)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))

Note: This example uses the full 12B model directly. Alternatively, you can extract smaller variants (6B or 9B) using the slicing script mentioned above if you need reduced computational requirements for your specific deployment scenario.

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