NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16 API & Inference Endpoint

Description

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16 is the full-precision release of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a vision-language model for reasoning, coding, tool use, document understanding, and video understanding. The BF16 weights support customization, domain adaptation, and full-precision evaluation. For optimized deployment, see the NVFP4 release.

The model combines interleaved Mamba-2, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), and attention layers with a C-RADIO vision encoder and a vision-language connector. It has 120B total parameters and 12B active parameters and supports context lengths up to 1M tokens. Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) enables native speculative decoding.

This model is ready for commercial or non-commercial use.

Model Summary

Table

Total Parameters	120B (12B active)
Architecture	Mamba-2–Transformer hybrid Mixture of Experts with a C-RADIO vision encoder
Precision	BF16 (full-precision reference weights)
Context Length	Up to 1M tokens; deployment settings are listed below
Inputs / Outputs	Text, images, and video / text
Deployment	4× H100 or 2× GB200
Speculative Decoding	Native Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)
Reasoning Mode	Configurable through the chat template (`enable_thinking=True/False`)
Recommended Sampling	Text: temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95; vision: temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95
Best For	Customization, domain adaptation, and full-precision evaluation
License	OpenMDW-1.1

Model Overview

Model Developer: NVIDIA Corporation

What is Nemotron?

NVIDIA Nemotron™ is a family of open models with open weights, training data, and recipes, delivering leading efficiency and accuracy for building specialized AI agents.

Quick Start

For efficient inference on DGX Spark or data center GPUs, see the NVFP4 card. The example below serves BF16 on 4× H100.

Use Docker with NVIDIA GPU support and the vllm/vllm-openai:nightly-3f1bcfd82bb2e93fcd364fc7a5491718453a77e2 or (vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0) image. If the model requires authentication, set HF_TOKEN in your shell before launching the container.

bash

export MODEL=nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16

bash

vllm serve $MODEL \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \  --trust-remote-code \  --gpu-memory-utilization=0.85 \  --allowed-local-media-path=/ \  --max-num-seqs=32 \  --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1, "image": 1}' \  --video-pruning-rate 0.5 \  --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' \  --enable-auto-tool-choice \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \  --speculative_config.method mtp \  --speculative_config.num_speculative_tokens 3

Wait for the server to finish loading the model and compiling kernels, then check the endpoint:

bash

curl --fail http://localhost:8000/v1/models

All vLLM and SGLang examples use port 8000 and the API model name nemotron-3.5-super-vl. See the API Client for text, image, video, and tool-calling examples.

License/Terms of Use

Governing Download Terms: Use of this model is governed by the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1.

Benchmarks

We evaluated our model on the following benchmarks:

Table with columns: Benchmark, Nemotron 3.5 SuperGA BF16, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, DeepSeek-V4-Flash0731, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Inkling-Small, GLM-5.3-Flash
Benchmark	Nemotron 3.5 SuperGA BF16	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B	Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	DeepSeek-V4-Flash0731	Nemotron 3 Ultra	Inkling-Small	GLM-5.3-Flash
GPQA-Diamond	89.52	86.7	92.7	89.6	87.0	88.6	91.2
HLE, text-only	31.79	24.2

We evaluated Nemotron 3.5 Super on a comprehensive suite of benchmarks spanning agentic capabilities, reasoning and knowledge, multimodal, conversational ability and instruction following, long-context understanding, and multilingual performance. All evaluation results for Nemotron 3.5 Super and baselines were collected via NeMo Gym. For reproducibility purposes, more details on the evaluation settings can be found in the NeMo Gym recipes folder and the corresponding reproducibility tutorial. The published recipes specify the benchmark-specific containers, prompts, inference parameters, parser configurations, and scoring settings used to produce the results.

There were a few benchmarks that were not yet onboarded in our open source tools, and for these we used either their official open source implementation or an internal scaffolding that we plan to open source in the future: BabyVision, CharXiv-RQ, MathVision, MMLongBench-Doc, OCR-Reasoning, OCRBench-v2, V*, Video-MME-v2.

Agentic Coding Benchmarks

Additional harness-level coding-agent results for SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.1 are shown below.

Deployment Geography: Global

Use Case

This model is intended for developers who want to customize a post-trained vision-language model, adapt it to domain-specific data, develop quantized variants, or run full-precision inference and evaluation.

Release Date

Hugging Face - 10/15/2026 via Hugging Face

Reference(s)

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Lightning Technical Report

Model Architecture

Architecture Type: Mamba-2–Transformer hybrid Mixture of Experts (MoE) with Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)
Network Architecture: Nemotron Hybrid MoE with 512 routed experts per MoE layer, a C-RADIO vision encoder, and a vision-language connector
Number of Model Parameters: 120B total / 12B active

Model Design

The model combines sparse expert computation, attention, and Mamba-2 layers to support long-context processing. The vision encoder and connector turn visual inputs into representations processed by the language backbone. A shared MTP head predicts future tokens recursively for speculative decoding.

The model supports up to 1M tokens of context. The prompt, visual inputs, conversation history, tool results, and generated response share this context window. Individual deployment recipes may use a smaller context window to accommodate the available GPU memory and concurrency.

Training Methodology

Stage 1: Foundation and Multi-Token Prediction

The language backbone is initialized from Nemotron 3 Super Base. A shared MTP head is trained for 100B tokens while the backbone remains frozen, followed by 1T tokens of distillation from Nemotron 3 Ultra Base.

Stage 2: Continued Pre-Training and Mid-Training

The model undergoes 100B tokens of Indic continued pre-training, a 35B-token extension to 1M context, 67B tokens of software-engineering mid-training at 256K context, and a final 9B-token long-context recovery stage. Software-engineering data includes repositories, issue–pull-request pairs, commit diffs, build and CI logs, and agent trajectories.

Stage 3: Vision-Language Training

A C-RADIO vision encoder and connector extend the language backbone to visual inputs, including images, document pages, and video frames.

Stage 4: Supervised Fine-Tuning

A two-stage supervised fine-tuning pipeline jointly trains the language and vision components on vision, reasoning, code, tools, chat, safety, and long-context data. Training uses packed sequences of up to 524,288 tokens.

Stage 5: Reinforcement Learning and Distillation

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and specialized teacher training improve reasoning, agentic, chat, and vision capabilities. Multi-teacher on-policy distillation consolidates these capabilities into a single model.

Stage 6: MTP Boosting

The MTP head is further trained against the frozen post-trained backbone to improve speculative-decoding acceptance.

Input

Input Type(s): Text, images, and video
Input Format(s): Text strings, images, and sampled video frames
- Video: mp4, up to 2 minutes.
- Image: Red, Green, Blue (RGB) (jpeg, png)
Input Parameters:
- Video: Three-Dimensional (3D)
- Image: Two-Dimensional (2D)
- Text: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Input: Maximum context length up to 1M tokens. Documents can be supplied as page images with accompanying text.

Output

Output Type(s): Text
Output Format: String
Output Parameters: One-dimensional sequences
Other Properties Related to Output: Maximum context length up to 1M tokens.

Our AI models are designed and 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): vLLM; SGLang
Hardware:
- NVIDIA Blackwell
- NVIDIA Hopper
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(s)

v1.0 - GA

Quick Start Guide

Choose your deployment

Table with columns: Hardware, Runtime, Configuration
Hardware	Runtime	Configuration
4× H100	vLLM	Text, image, and video; TP4; MTP with 3 draft tokens
2× GB200	vLLM	Text, image, and video; TP2; MTP with 5 draft tokens

Speculative Decoding

The serving examples enable the model's native MTP head. No separate drafter download is required for these vLLM and SGLang recipes. In vLLM, num_speculative_tokens controls draft length; in SGLang, the MTP recipe uses EAGLE with speculative-eagle-topk 1.

Performance depends on hardware, request length, and concurrency. To compare with standard decoding, remove the speculative configuration while keeping the model, workload, sampling parameters, and other server settings the same.

vLLM

Use vllm/vllm-openai:nightly-3f1bcfd82bb2e93fcd364fc7a5491718453a77e2 for these commands (or vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0).

4× H100 (up to 1M Context Length)

Use this command if you need to serve the model with up to 1M context length.

bash

vllm serve $MODEL \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \  --trust-remote-code \  --async-scheduling \  --allowed-local-media-path=/ \  --max-num-seqs 32 \  --enable-mamba-shared-prefix-checkpoint \  --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1, "image": 1}' \  --video-pruning-rate 0.5 \  --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' \  --enable-auto-tool-choice \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \  --speculative_config.method mtp \  --speculative_config.num_speculative_tokens 5

2× GB200 (up to 1M Context Length)

Use this command if you need to serve the model with up to 1M context length.

bash

vllm serve $MODEL \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \  --trust-remote-code \  --async-scheduling \  --allowed-local-media-path=/ \  --max-num-seqs 32 \  --enable-mamba-shared-prefix-checkpoint \  --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1, "image": 1}' \  --video-pruning-rate 0.5 \  --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' \  --enable-auto-tool-choice \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \  --speculative_config.method mtp \  --speculative_config.num_speculative_tokens 5

For the multimodal examples, each request can contain one image and one video. The video configuration samples up to 256 frames at 2 FPS with a pruning rate of 0.5. For 1080p videos, use 1 FPS and up to 128 frames; 2 FPS and 256 frames can be used for lower-resolution video such as 720p. Start with short MP4 clips of one to two minutes.

SGLang

Use lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.20. The example below runs on two GB200 GPUs.

bash

docker run --rm --gpus all --ipc=host \  -p 8000:8000 \  -e HF_TOKEN \  -v "$HOME/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface" \  --entrypoint sglang lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.20 \  serve --model-path "$MODEL_CKPT" \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --host 0.0.0.0 \  --port 8000 \  --trust-remote-code \  --tp-size 2 \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_3 \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --mamba-ssm-dtype float16 \  --enable-mamba-cache-stochastic-rounding \  --mamba-cache-philox-rounds 5 \  --speculative-algorithm EAGLE \  --speculative-num-steps 5 \  --speculative-eagle-topk 1

API Client

Install the OpenAI-compatible client:

bash

pip install openai

Text and reasoning

python

from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")model = "nemotron-3.5-super-vl" response = client.chat.completions.create(    model=model,    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain why binary search takes logarithmic time."}],    temperature=1.0,    top_p=0.95,    max_tokens=16384,    extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": True}},)choice = response.choices[0]if choice.finish_reason == "length":    raise RuntimeError("The response reached max_tokens; increase the output budget.")print(choice.message.content)

Set enable_thinking to False to disable reasoning. For medium reasoning effort, use {"enable_thinking": True, "medium_effort": True}. Reasoning tokens and the final answer share the max_tokens budget.

Images

Use a multimodal server configuration. The example below sends a local image as a base64 data URL.

python

import base64from pathlib import Pathfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")image_bytes = Path("image.png").read_bytes()image_url = "data:image/png;base64," + base64.b64encode(image_bytes).decode() response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="nemotron-3.5-super-vl",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [        {"type": "text", "text": "Describe the image and any visible text."},        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_url}},    ]}],    temperature=1.0,    top_p=0.95,    max_tokens=16384,)if response.choices[0].finish_reason == "length":    raise RuntimeError("The response reached max_tokens; increase the output budget.")print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Video with vLLM

Use a multimodal vLLM configuration with the video sampling settings above.

python

import base64from pathlib import Pathfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")video_bytes = Path("video.mp4").read_bytes()video_url = "data:video/mp4;base64," + base64.b64encode(video_bytes).decode() response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="nemotron-3.5-super-vl",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [        {"type": "text", "text": "Summarize the events in this video in order."},        {"type": "video_url", "video_url": {"url": video_url}},    ]}],    temperature=1.0,    top_p=0.95,    max_tokens=16384,)if response.choices[0].finish_reason == "length":    raise RuntimeError("The response reached max_tokens; increase the output budget.")print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Tool calling

The model requests a tool call; the application executes it and returns the result. This complete example uses a local inventory lookup.

python

import jsonfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")model = "nemotron-3.5-super-vl"inventory = {"keyboard": 12, "monitor": 5}tools = [{"type": "function", "function": {    "name": "get_inventory",    "description": "Return the inventory count for a product.",    "parameters": {        "type": "object",        "properties": {"product": {"type": "string", "enum": ["keyboard", "monitor"]}},        "required": ["product"],        "additionalProperties": False,    },}}]messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "How many keyboards are in stock?"}] def complete(history, tool_choice="auto"):    response = client.chat.completions.create(        model=model,        messages=history,        tools=tools,        tool_choice=tool_choice,        temperature=1.0,        top_p=0.95,        max_tokens=16384,        extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": True}},    )    choice = response.choices[0]    if choice.finish_reason == "length":        raise RuntimeError("The response was truncated; increase max_tokens.")    return choice.message message = complete(messages)messages.append(message.model_dump(exclude_none=True))if not message.tool_calls:    print(message.content)else:    for call in message.tool_calls:        arguments = json.loads(call.function.arguments)        if (call.function.name != "get_inventory"                or not isinstance(arguments, dict)                or set(arguments) != {"product"}                or not isinstance(arguments["product"], str)                or arguments["product"] not in inventory):            raise ValueError("Invalid inventory tool call")        product = arguments["product"]        messages.append({            "role": "tool",            "tool_call_id": call.id,            "content": json.dumps({"product": product, "count": inventory[product]}),        })    print(complete(messages, tool_choice="none").content)

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets

Training

Data Modality: Text, images, and video
Foundation Training Data Size: More than 20 trillion tokens Image Training Data Size: 1 Million to 1 Billion Images Text Training Data Size: More than 10 Trillion Tokens Video Training Data Size: 10,000 to 1 Million Hours Foundation Data Collection Period: 2013 to December 2025
Data Collection Method: Hybrid: automated, manually-collected, and synthetic
Labeling Method: Hybrid: automated, manually-labeled, and synthetic

The foundation corpus contains curated and synthetic text covering English, 19 other spoken languages, and 43 programming languages. Sources include webpages, dialogue, articles, code, and other written materials across math, science, legal, finance, and general knowledge domains.

The post-training corpus includes reasoning, coding, tool use, instruction following, structured outputs, chat, safety, and long-context tasks, together with image and video understanding. Synthetic trajectories are filtered for structural correctness, repetition, and task validity.

For more information about the datasets used to train this model, please see the Public Summary of Training Content

Base Pre-Training Corpus (Nemotron 3 Foundation)

The foundation of the model is trained on the Nemotron 3 corpus, comprising the following datasets from the Nemotron Pretraining Datasets collection:

Table with columns: Dataset Collection, Token Counts, Description
Dataset Collection	Token Counts	Description
Nemotron-CC-v2 & v2.1	9.1T	A massive collection of English web data filtered from Common Crawl, including 2.5T+ tokens of new organic, translated, and synthetically rephrased content.
Nemotron-CC-Code-v1	427.9B	High-quality code tokens extracted from Common Crawl using the Lynx + LLM pipeline to preserve structure and equations.
Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v1 & v2 & v3	1.7T	Curated GitHub code references with multi-stage filtering, deduplication, and large-scale synthetic code data.
Nemotron-CC-Math-v1	133.3B	High-quality math pre-training dataset preserving LaTeX formatting and mathematical structures.

Public Datasets

Table with columns: Dataset, Collection Period
Dataset	Collection Period
GSM8K	4/23/2025
CC-NEWS	4/23/2025
Common Crawl	4/23/2025
Wikimedia	4/23/2025
Bespoke-Stratos-17k

Crawled and Scraped from Online Sources by NVIDIA

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 used in the Nemotron-CC data pipeline. 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 instead—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.

Table with columns: Dataset, Modality, Dataset Size, Collection Period, Collecting Organisation
Dataset	Modality	Dataset Size	Collection Period	Collecting Organisation
English Common Crawl	Text	3.36T	4/8/2025	NVIDIA Advanced Deep Learning Research
English Common Crawl 1.1	Text	Not disclosed	10/2/2025	NVIDIA Advanced Deep Learning Research
Multilingual Common Crawl	Text	812.7B	5/1/2025

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets of Third Parties

Table with columns: Dataset, Model(s) used
Dataset	Model(s) used
Global Regulation	Unknown
TAUS Translation Memory	Unknown
Scale HLE	Unknown
HackerRank Coding	Unknown
RL data for Search	Gemini 3; GPT-5
Mercor SWE-AgentsV1	Undisclosed
KeenSight Batch 1, Relabeled Subset	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
KeenSight Batch 1, Remaining Subset	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Camio Multilingual OCR and Document Layout

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets by NVIDIA

Table with columns: Dataset, Model(s) used
Dataset	Model(s) used
Simple Minesweeper	Undisclosed
Simple Sudoku	Undisclosed
Multitool Typewriter Hard	Undisclosed
Machine Translation of News Commentary and TAUS Translation Memory	Undisclosed
Machine Translation of STEM -	Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
Competitive Coding RL data from Nemotron Cascade	Undisclosed
Long context RL	Undisclosed
Single-step SWE RL for patch generation

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets (Pre-Training)

Table with columns: Dataset, Modality, Dataset Size, Seed Dataset, Model(s) used for generation
Dataset	Modality	Dataset Size	Seed Dataset	Model(s) used for generation
Nemotron-Pretraining-Fact-Seeking	Text	35.0B	FineWiki	Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
Nemotron-Pretraining-Legal	Text	4.3B	CommonPile (caselaw_access_project_filtered); California Code of Regulations; Judicial Ethics Opinions; GLOBALCIT; ; Nemotron Personas; ; CodeHima/TOS_Dataset; ; CaseHOLD; Code of Federal Regulations; (subsets that allow commercial use)

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets (Post-Training)

Table with columns: Dataset, Modality, Dataset Size, Seed Dataset, Model(s) used for generation
Dataset	Modality	Dataset Size	Seed Dataset	Model(s) used for generation
Synthetic Single-Step Tool Use — RL	Text	Approximately 1,433,203 samples	Handwritten prompts; no external seed data	DeepSeek-V3.2; DeepSeek-R1-0528; Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507; Qwen3-32B
Synthetic Sparse Tables with Mixed Prompts	Text and images	100,000 records	Generated in-house; no external seed data	None; generated without an SDG model
Synthetic Single-Step Tool Use — RL	Text	Approximately 1,433,203 samples

Language Distribution in Post-Training

For our post-training recipe, we focused on the following languages in addition to English: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese. Those languages were represented in the form of multilingual reasoning and translation tasks.

Additional Training Data

Table with columns: Data, Composition and Purpose
Data	Composition and Purpose
Indic continued pre-training	100B tokens: 10B selected Indic tokens and 90B tokens from the preceding blend.
Software-engineering mid-training	67B tokens: whole repositories (20%), issue–pull-request pairs (41%), commit diffs (3%), build and CI logs (1%), agent traces (10%), pre-training replay (20%), and long-context data (5%). Sources are decontaminated against SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench repositories.
Long-context pre-training	A 35B-token extension to 1M context, followed by a 9B-token long-context recovery stage.
Vision-language data	Image and video data from the Nemotron 3 Nano Omni training corpus, including visual question answering, charts, tables, OCR, multi-page documents, visual grounding, and video understanding.

Table with columns: Post-Training Data, Composition and Purpose
Post-Training Data	Composition and Purpose
Additional synthetic vision data	Chart understanding, grounded perception, multimodal reasoning, and visual tool-use trajectories, including data generated with Qwen3.5 and Kimi models.
Reasoning trajectories	Mathematics and STEM responses generated with Kimi K3; mathematical proofs generated with DeepSeek V4 Pro; competitive-programming trajectories generated with GLM-5.2.
Chat and safety	Refreshed chat responses from Qwen, Kimi, and Gemma models, with additional safety data.
Long-context supervised data	512K-context data, synthetic graph reasoning and transduction tasks, long-horizon search and coding trajectories, and documents containing up to hundreds of pages.
Long-document translation	Chunked translations of PG19 and FinePDFs-Edu documents generated with DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Testing Datasets

Data Collection Method: Hybrid: automated, manually-collected, and synthetic
Labeling Method: Hybrid: automated, manually-labeled, and synthetic
Properties: Standard benchmarks and task-specific test suites covering reasoning, coding, tool use, instruction following, long context, and visual understanding.

Evaluation Datasets

Inference

Acceleration Engine: PyTorch
Test Hardware:
- NVIDIA Hopper
  - H100
  - H200
- NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
  - GB200
  - GB300
- NVIDIA Blackwell
  - B200
  - B300

The deployment examples above provide configurations for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell systems. Choose the precision, context length, and concurrency appropriate for the application and available memory.

Ethical Considerations

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Description

This model is ready for commercial or non-commercial use.

Model Summary

Table

Total Parameters	120B (12B active)
Architecture	Mamba-2–Transformer hybrid Mixture of Experts with a C-RADIO vision encoder
Precision	BF16 (full-precision reference weights)
Context Length	Up to 1M tokens; deployment settings are listed below
Inputs / Outputs	Text, images, and video / text
Deployment	4× H100 or 2× GB200
Speculative Decoding	Native Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)
Reasoning Mode	Configurable through the chat template (`enable_thinking=True/False`)
Recommended Sampling	Text: temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95; vision: temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95
Best For	Customization, domain adaptation, and full-precision evaluation
License	OpenMDW-1.1

Model Overview

Model Developer: NVIDIA Corporation

What is Nemotron?

NVIDIA Nemotron™ is a family of open models with open weights, training data, and recipes, delivering leading efficiency and accuracy for building specialized AI agents.

Quick Start

For efficient inference on DGX Spark or data center GPUs, see the NVFP4 card. The example below serves BF16 on 4× H100.

bash

export MODEL=nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16

bash

vllm serve $MODEL \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \  --trust-remote-code \  --gpu-memory-utilization=0.85 \  --allowed-local-media-path=/ \  --max-num-seqs=32 \  --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1, "image": 1}' \  --video-pruning-rate 0.5 \  --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' \  --enable-auto-tool-choice \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \  --speculative_config.method mtp \  --speculative_config.num_speculative_tokens 3

Wait for the server to finish loading the model and compiling kernels, then check the endpoint:

bash

curl --fail http://localhost:8000/v1/models

All vLLM and SGLang examples use port 8000 and the API model name nemotron-3.5-super-vl. See the API Client for text, image, video, and tool-calling examples.

License/Terms of Use

Governing Download Terms: Use of this model is governed by the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1.

Benchmarks

We evaluated our model on the following benchmarks:

Table with columns: Benchmark, Nemotron 3.5 SuperGA BF16, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, DeepSeek-V4-Flash0731, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Inkling-Small, GLM-5.3-Flash
Benchmark	Nemotron 3.5 SuperGA BF16	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B	Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	DeepSeek-V4-Flash0731	Nemotron 3 Ultra	Inkling-Small	GLM-5.3-Flash
GPQA-Diamond	89.52	86.7	92.7	89.6	87.0	88.6	91.2
HLE, text-only	31.79	24.2

Agentic Coding Benchmarks

Additional harness-level coding-agent results for SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.1 are shown below.

Deployment Geography: Global

Use Case

Release Date

Hugging Face - 10/15/2026 via Hugging Face

Reference(s)

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Lightning Technical Report

Model Architecture

Architecture Type: Mamba-2–Transformer hybrid Mixture of Experts (MoE) with Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)
Network Architecture: Nemotron Hybrid MoE with 512 routed experts per MoE layer, a C-RADIO vision encoder, and a vision-language connector
Number of Model Parameters: 120B total / 12B active

Model Design

Training Methodology

Stage 1: Foundation and Multi-Token Prediction

Stage 2: Continued Pre-Training and Mid-Training

Stage 3: Vision-Language Training

A C-RADIO vision encoder and connector extend the language backbone to visual inputs, including images, document pages, and video frames.

Stage 4: Supervised Fine-Tuning

Stage 5: Reinforcement Learning and Distillation

Stage 6: MTP Boosting

The MTP head is further trained against the frozen post-trained backbone to improve speculative-decoding acceptance.

Input

Input Type(s): Text, images, and video
Input Format(s): Text strings, images, and sampled video frames
- Video: mp4, up to 2 minutes.
- Image: Red, Green, Blue (RGB) (jpeg, png)
Input Parameters:
- Video: Three-Dimensional (3D)
- Image: Two-Dimensional (2D)
- Text: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Input: Maximum context length up to 1M tokens. Documents can be supplied as page images with accompanying text.

Output

Output Type(s): Text
Output Format: String
Output Parameters: One-dimensional sequences
Other Properties Related to Output: Maximum context length up to 1M tokens.

Software Integration

Runtime Engine(s): vLLM; SGLang
Hardware:
- NVIDIA Blackwell
- NVIDIA Hopper
Operating System(s): Linux

Model Version(s)

v1.0 - GA

Quick Start Guide

Choose your deployment

Table with columns: Hardware, Runtime, Configuration
Hardware	Runtime	Configuration
4× H100	vLLM	Text, image, and video; TP4; MTP with 3 draft tokens
2× GB200	vLLM	Text, image, and video; TP2; MTP with 5 draft tokens

Speculative Decoding

vLLM

Use vllm/vllm-openai:nightly-3f1bcfd82bb2e93fcd364fc7a5491718453a77e2 for these commands (or vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0).

4× H100 (up to 1M Context Length)

Use this command if you need to serve the model with up to 1M context length.

bash

vllm serve $MODEL \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \  --trust-remote-code \  --async-scheduling \  --allowed-local-media-path=/ \  --max-num-seqs 32 \  --enable-mamba-shared-prefix-checkpoint \  --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1, "image": 1}' \  --video-pruning-rate 0.5 \  --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' \  --enable-auto-tool-choice \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \  --speculative_config.method mtp \  --speculative_config.num_speculative_tokens 5

2× GB200 (up to 1M Context Length)

Use this command if you need to serve the model with up to 1M context length.

bash

vllm serve $MODEL \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \  --trust-remote-code \  --async-scheduling \  --allowed-local-media-path=/ \  --max-num-seqs 32 \  --enable-mamba-shared-prefix-checkpoint \  --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1, "image": 1}' \  --video-pruning-rate 0.5 \  --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"fps": 2, "num_frames": 256}}' \  --enable-auto-tool-choice \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \  --speculative_config.method mtp \  --speculative_config.num_speculative_tokens 5

SGLang

Use lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.20. The example below runs on two GB200 GPUs.

bash

docker run --rm --gpus all --ipc=host \  -p 8000:8000 \  -e HF_TOKEN \  -v "$HOME/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface" \  --entrypoint sglang lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.20 \  serve --model-path "$MODEL_CKPT" \  --served-model-name nemotron-3.5-super-vl \  --host 0.0.0.0 \  --port 8000 \  --trust-remote-code \  --tp-size 2 \  --reasoning-parser nemotron_3 \  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \  --mamba-ssm-dtype float16 \  --enable-mamba-cache-stochastic-rounding \  --mamba-cache-philox-rounds 5 \  --speculative-algorithm EAGLE \  --speculative-num-steps 5 \  --speculative-eagle-topk 1

API Client

Install the OpenAI-compatible client:

bash

pip install openai

Text and reasoning

python

from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")model = "nemotron-3.5-super-vl" response = client.chat.completions.create(    model=model,    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain why binary search takes logarithmic time."}],    temperature=1.0,    top_p=0.95,    max_tokens=16384,    extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": True}},)choice = response.choices[0]if choice.finish_reason == "length":    raise RuntimeError("The response reached max_tokens; increase the output budget.")print(choice.message.content)

Images

Use a multimodal server configuration. The example below sends a local image as a base64 data URL.

python

import base64from pathlib import Pathfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")image_bytes = Path("image.png").read_bytes()image_url = "data:image/png;base64," + base64.b64encode(image_bytes).decode() response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="nemotron-3.5-super-vl",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [        {"type": "text", "text": "Describe the image and any visible text."},        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_url}},    ]}],    temperature=1.0,    top_p=0.95,    max_tokens=16384,)if response.choices[0].finish_reason == "length":    raise RuntimeError("The response reached max_tokens; increase the output budget.")print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Video with vLLM

Use a multimodal vLLM configuration with the video sampling settings above.

python

import base64from pathlib import Pathfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")video_bytes = Path("video.mp4").read_bytes()video_url = "data:video/mp4;base64," + base64.b64encode(video_bytes).decode() response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="nemotron-3.5-super-vl",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [        {"type": "text", "text": "Summarize the events in this video in order."},        {"type": "video_url", "video_url": {"url": video_url}},    ]}],    temperature=1.0,    top_p=0.95,    max_tokens=16384,)if response.choices[0].finish_reason == "length":    raise RuntimeError("The response reached max_tokens; increase the output budget.")print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Tool calling

The model requests a tool call; the application executes it and returns the result. This complete example uses a local inventory lookup.

python

import jsonfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")model = "nemotron-3.5-super-vl"inventory = {"keyboard": 12, "monitor": 5}tools = [{"type": "function", "function": {    "name": "get_inventory",    "description": "Return the inventory count for a product.",    "parameters": {        "type": "object",        "properties": {"product": {"type": "string", "enum": ["keyboard", "monitor"]}},        "required": ["product"],        "additionalProperties": False,    },}}]messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "How many keyboards are in stock?"}] def complete(history, tool_choice="auto"):    response = client.chat.completions.create(        model=model,        messages=history,        tools=tools,        tool_choice=tool_choice,        temperature=1.0,        top_p=0.95,        max_tokens=16384,        extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": True}},    )    choice = response.choices[0]    if choice.finish_reason == "length":        raise RuntimeError("The response was truncated; increase max_tokens.")    return choice.message message = complete(messages)messages.append(message.model_dump(exclude_none=True))if not message.tool_calls:    print(message.content)else:    for call in message.tool_calls:        arguments = json.loads(call.function.arguments)        if (call.function.name != "get_inventory"                or not isinstance(arguments, dict)                or set(arguments) != {"product"}                or not isinstance(arguments["product"], str)                or arguments["product"] not in inventory):            raise ValueError("Invalid inventory tool call")        product = arguments["product"]        messages.append({            "role": "tool",            "tool_call_id": call.id,            "content": json.dumps({"product": product, "count": inventory[product]}),        })    print(complete(messages, tool_choice="none").content)

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets

Training

For more information about the datasets used to train this model, please see the Public Summary of Training Content

Base Pre-Training Corpus (Nemotron 3 Foundation)

The foundation of the model is trained on the Nemotron 3 corpus, comprising the following datasets from the Nemotron Pretraining Datasets collection:

Table with columns: Dataset Collection, Token Counts, Description
Dataset Collection	Token Counts	Description
Nemotron-CC-v2 & v2.1	9.1T	A massive collection of English web data filtered from Common Crawl, including 2.5T+ tokens of new organic, translated, and synthetically rephrased content.
Nemotron-CC-Code-v1	427.9B	High-quality code tokens extracted from Common Crawl using the Lynx + LLM pipeline to preserve structure and equations.
Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v1 & v2 & v3	1.7T	Curated GitHub code references with multi-stage filtering, deduplication, and large-scale synthetic code data.
Nemotron-CC-Math-v1	133.3B	High-quality math pre-training dataset preserving LaTeX formatting and mathematical structures.

Public Datasets

Table with columns: Dataset, Collection Period
Dataset	Collection Period
GSM8K	4/23/2025
CC-NEWS	4/23/2025
Common Crawl	4/23/2025
Wikimedia	4/23/2025
Bespoke-Stratos-17k

Crawled and Scraped from Online Sources by NVIDIA

Table with columns: Dataset, Modality, Dataset Size, Collection Period, Collecting Organisation
Dataset	Modality	Dataset Size	Collection Period	Collecting Organisation
English Common Crawl	Text	3.36T	4/8/2025	NVIDIA Advanced Deep Learning Research
English Common Crawl 1.1	Text	Not disclosed	10/2/2025	NVIDIA Advanced Deep Learning Research
Multilingual Common Crawl	Text	812.7B	5/1/2025

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets of Third Parties

Table with columns: Dataset, Model(s) used
Dataset	Model(s) used
Global Regulation	Unknown
TAUS Translation Memory	Unknown
Scale HLE	Unknown
HackerRank Coding	Unknown
RL data for Search	Gemini 3; GPT-5
Mercor SWE-AgentsV1	Undisclosed
KeenSight Batch 1, Relabeled Subset	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
KeenSight Batch 1, Remaining Subset	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Camio Multilingual OCR and Document Layout

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets by NVIDIA

Table with columns: Dataset, Model(s) used
Dataset	Model(s) used
Simple Minesweeper	Undisclosed
Simple Sudoku	Undisclosed
Multitool Typewriter Hard	Undisclosed
Machine Translation of News Commentary and TAUS Translation Memory	Undisclosed
Machine Translation of STEM -	Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
Competitive Coding RL data from Nemotron Cascade	Undisclosed
Long context RL	Undisclosed
Single-step SWE RL for patch generation

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets (Pre-Training)

Table with columns: Dataset, Modality, Dataset Size, Seed Dataset, Model(s) used for generation
Dataset	Modality	Dataset Size	Seed Dataset	Model(s) used for generation
Nemotron-Pretraining-Fact-Seeking	Text	35.0B	FineWiki	Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
Nemotron-Pretraining-Legal	Text	4.3B	CommonPile (caselaw_access_project_filtered); California Code of Regulations; Judicial Ethics Opinions; GLOBALCIT; ; Nemotron Personas; ; CodeHima/TOS_Dataset; ; CaseHOLD; Code of Federal Regulations; (subsets that allow commercial use)

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets (Post-Training)

Table with columns: Dataset, Modality, Dataset Size, Seed Dataset, Model(s) used for generation
Dataset	Modality	Dataset Size	Seed Dataset	Model(s) used for generation
Synthetic Single-Step Tool Use — RL	Text	Approximately 1,433,203 samples	Handwritten prompts; no external seed data	DeepSeek-V3.2; DeepSeek-R1-0528; Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507; Qwen3-32B
Synthetic Sparse Tables with Mixed Prompts	Text and images	100,000 records	Generated in-house; no external seed data	None; generated without an SDG model
Synthetic Single-Step Tool Use — RL	Text	Approximately 1,433,203 samples

Language Distribution in Post-Training

Additional Training Data

Table with columns: Data, Composition and Purpose
Data	Composition and Purpose
Indic continued pre-training	100B tokens: 10B selected Indic tokens and 90B tokens from the preceding blend.
Software-engineering mid-training	67B tokens: whole repositories (20%), issue–pull-request pairs (41%), commit diffs (3%), build and CI logs (1%), agent traces (10%), pre-training replay (20%), and long-context data (5%). Sources are decontaminated against SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench repositories.
Long-context pre-training	A 35B-token extension to 1M context, followed by a 9B-token long-context recovery stage.
Vision-language data	Image and video data from the Nemotron 3 Nano Omni training corpus, including visual question answering, charts, tables, OCR, multi-page documents, visual grounding, and video understanding.

Table with columns: Post-Training Data, Composition and Purpose
Post-Training Data	Composition and Purpose
Additional synthetic vision data	Chart understanding, grounded perception, multimodal reasoning, and visual tool-use trajectories, including data generated with Qwen3.5 and Kimi models.
Reasoning trajectories	Mathematics and STEM responses generated with Kimi K3; mathematical proofs generated with DeepSeek V4 Pro; competitive-programming trajectories generated with GLM-5.2.
Chat and safety	Refreshed chat responses from Qwen, Kimi, and Gemma models, with additional safety data.
Long-context supervised data	512K-context data, synthetic graph reasoning and transduction tasks, long-horizon search and coding trajectories, and documents containing up to hundreds of pages.
Long-document translation	Chunked translations of PG19 and FinePDFs-Edu documents generated with DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Testing Datasets

Evaluation Datasets

Inference

Acceleration Engine: PyTorch
Test Hardware:
- NVIDIA Hopper
  - H100
  - H200
- NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
  - GB200
  - GB300
- NVIDIA Blackwell
  - B200
  - B300

Ethical Considerations

Please report model quality, risk, security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI Concerns here.

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16

README

Description

Model Summary

Model Overview

What is Nemotron?

Quick Start

License/Terms of Use

Benchmarks

Agentic Coding Benchmarks

Deployment Geography: Global

Use Case

Release Date

Reference(s)

Model Architecture

Model Design

Training Methodology

Input

Output

Software Integration

Model Version(s)

Quick Start Guide

Choose your deployment

Speculative Decoding

vLLM

4× H100 (up to 1M Context Length)

2× GB200 (up to 1M Context Length)

SGLang

API Client

Text and reasoning

Images

Video with vLLM

Tool calling

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets

Training

Base Pre-Training Corpus (Nemotron 3 Foundation)

Public Datasets

Crawled and Scraped from Online Sources by NVIDIA

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets of Third Parties

Private Non-publicly Accessible Datasets by NVIDIA

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets (Pre-Training)

NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets (Post-Training)

Language Distribution in Post-Training

Additional Training Data

Testing Datasets

Evaluation Datasets

Inference

Ethical Considerations

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README

Description

Model Summary

Model Overview

What is Nemotron?

Quick Start

License/Terms of Use

Benchmarks

Agentic Coding Benchmarks

Deployment Geography: Global

Use Case

Release Date

Reference(s)

Model Architecture

Model Design

Training Methodology

Input

Output

Software Integration

Model Version(s)

Quick Start Guide

Choose your deployment

Speculative Decoding

vLLM

4× H100 (up to 1M Context Length)

2× GB200 (up to 1M Context Length)

SGLang

API Client

Text and reasoning

Images

Video with vLLM