OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B is a large language model (LLM) which is a derivative of Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (AKA the reference model). It is a reasoning model that is post-trained for reasoning for code generation. The model supports a context length of 32K tokens.

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

Results from OpenCodeReasoning

Below results are the average of 64 evaluations on each benchmark.

Model	LiveCodeBench Avg.	CodeContest All
DeepSeek-R1	65.6	26.2
QwQ-32B	61.3	20.2

Distilled 7B+ Models

Bespoke-Stratos-7B	14.7	2.0
OpenThinker-7B	25.5	5.0
R1-Distill-Qwen-7B	38.0	11.1
OlympicCoder-7B	40.9	10.6
OCR-Qwen-7B	48.5	16.3
OCR-Qwen-7B-Instruct	51.3	18.1

Distilled 14B+ Models

R1-Distill-Qwen-14B	51.3	17.6
OCR-Qwen-14B	57.7	22.6
OCR-Qwen-14B-Instruct	59.4	23.6

Distilled 32B+ Models

Bespoke-Stratos-32B	30.1	6.3
OpenThinker-32B	54.1	16.4
R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	58.1	18.3
OlympicCoder-32B	57.4	18.0
OCR-Qwen-32B	61.8	24.6
OCR-Qwen-32B-Instruct	61.7	24.4

Reproducing our results

How to use the models?

To run inference on coding problems:

python

import transformers
import torch

model_id = "nvidia/OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B"

pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model=model_id,
    model_kwargs={"torch_dtype": torch.bfloat16},
    device_map="auto",
)

prompt = """You are a helpful and harmless assistant. You should think step-by-step before responding to the instruction below.

Please use python programming language only.

You must use ```python for just the final solution code block with the following format:
```python
# Your code here
```

{user}
"""

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": prompt.format(user="Write a program to calculate the sum of the first $N$ fibonacci numbers")},
]

outputs = pipeline(
    messages,
    max_new_tokens=32768,
)
print(outputs[0]["generated_text"][-1]['content'])

Citation

If you find the data useful, please cite:

@article{ahmad2025opencodereasoning,
      title={OpenCodeReasoning: Advancing Data Distillation for Competitive Coding}, 
      author={Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Sean Narenthiran, Somshubra Majumdar, Aleksander Ficek, Siddhartha Jain, Jocelyn Huang, Vahid Noroozi, Boris Ginsburg},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2504.01943},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01943}, 
}

Additional Information

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Dense decoder-only Transformer model Network Architecture: Qwen-7B-Instruct
This model was developed based on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and has 7B model parameters.
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B was developed based on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and has 7B model parameters.

Input:

Input Type(s): Text
Input Format(s): String
Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Input: Context length up to 32,768 tokens

Output:

Output Type(s): Text
Output Format: String
Output Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Output: Context length up to 32,768 tokens

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: NeMo 2.3.0
Recommended Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:
NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA Hopper
Preferred/Supported Operating System(s): Linux

Model Version(s):

1.0 (4/25/2025)
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-14B
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-32B
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-32B-IOI

Training and Evaluation Datasets:

Training Dataset:

The training corpus for OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B is OpenCodeReasoning dataset, which is composed of competitive programming questions and DeepSeek-R1 generated responses.

Data Collection Method: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic
Labeling Method: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic
Properties: 736k samples from OpenCodeReasoning (https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/OpenCodeReasoning)

Evaluation Dataset:

We used the datasets listed in the next section to evaluate OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B.
Data Collection Method: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic
Labeling Method: Hybrid: Automated, Human, Synthetic

License/Terms of Use:

GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this model is governed by Apache 2.0.

Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

This model is intended for developers and researchers building LLMs.

Release Date:

Huggingface [04/25/2025] via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B/

Reference(s):

[2504.01943] OpenCodeReasoning: Advancing Data Distillation for Competitive Coding

Inference:

Engine: vLLM
Test Hardware NVIDIA H100-80GB

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