NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is a multimodal large language model that unifies video, audio, image, and text understanding to support enterprise-grade Q&A, summarization, transcription, and document intelligence workflows. It extends the Nemotron Nano family with integrated video+speech comprehension, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and speech transcription capabilities, enabling end-to-end processing of rich enterprise content such as meeting recordings, M&E assets, training videos, and complex business documents. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni was developed by NVIDIA as part of the Nemotron model family.
This model is available for commercial use.
This model was improved using Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct, and gpt-oss-120b. For more information, please see the Training Dataset section below.
Video: mp4, up to 2 minutes. For 1080p videos, sample up to 1 FPS / 128 frames. For lower-resolution videos such as 720p, higher temporal sampling such as 2 FPS / 256 frames may be used.
Audio: wav, mp3 files (up to 1 hour), 8kHz and higher sampling rates
Image: Red, Green, Blue (RGB) (jpeg, png)
Text: String
Input Parameters:
Video: Three-Dimensional (3D)
Audio: One-Dimensional (1D)
Image: Two-Dimensional (2D)
Text: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Input:
Maximum context length up to 256k tokens
Language support: English only
Output(s)
Output Type(s): Text
Output Format(s):
Text: String
Output Parameters:
Text: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Output:
Maximum context length up to 256k tokens.
Supports JSON output format
Supports reasoning output with chain-of-thought
Supports tool calling
Supports word-level timestamps for transcription
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.
NVIDIA Blackwell (B200 SXM/NVLink, RTX Pro 6000 SE, DGX Spark, Jetson Thor, RTX 5090)
NVIDIA Hopper (H100 SXM/NVLink, H200 SXM/NVLink)
NVIDIA Lovelace (L40S)
Preferred/Supported Operating System(s):
Linux
Inference Runtimes:
vLLM
TensorRT LLM
TensorRT Edge-LLM
llama.cpp
Ollama
SGLang
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.
This AI model can be embedded as an Application Programming Interface (API) call into the software environment described above.
1pip install -U "huggingface_hub[hf_xet]"23# Log in once; the token is cached at ~/.cache/huggingface/token4hf auth login
56# Sanity check: should print your username and orgs7hf auth whoami
Download the weights
Pick a target directory on a volume with ≥70 GB free (the model is ~62 GB).
RTX Pro: Due to a current bug with FlashInfer + RTX Pro, append: --moe-backend triton
NVFP4 + TP>1: Due to a current bug with the TRTLLM_GEN MoE backend kernels on vLLM, when running with TP>1 on NVFP4, append: --moe-backend flashinfer_cutlass
vLLM on DGX Spark (aarch64 / ARM64)
For everything not covered here (API examples, reasoning mode, video tuning), follow the general instructions.
1. Pull the container image
Use the upstream multi-arch vLLM v0.20.0 docker image. Docker will automatically pull the arm64 variant.
docker pull vllm/vllm-openai:v0.20.0
2. Launch the vLLM server on Spark
bash
1WEIGHTS=/path/to/nemotron-3-nano-omni-weights
23# The image does not include audio packages so we need to install them with "pip install vllm[audio]" as done in the command below4docker run --rm -it \5 --gpus all \6 --ipc=host -p 8000:8000 \7 --shm-size=16g \8 --name vllm-nemotron-omni \9 -v "${WEIGHTS}:/model:ro"\10 --entrypoint /bin/bash \11 vllm/vllm-openai:v0.20.0 -c \12"pip install vllm[audio] && vllm serve /model \
13 --served-model-name=nemotron_3_nano_omni \
14 --max-num-seqs 8 \
15 --max-model-len 131072 \
16 --port 8000 \
17 --trust-remote-code \
18 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.8 \
19 --limit-mm-per-prompt '{\"video\": 1, \"image\": 1, \"audio\": 1}' \
20 --media-io-kwargs '{\"video\": {\"fps\": 2, \"num_frames\": 256}}' \
21 --allowed-local-media-path=/ \
22 --enable-prefix-caching \
23 --max-num-batched-tokens 32768 \
24 --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \
25 --enable-auto-tool-choice \
26 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder"
1curl -sS http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \2 -H "Content-Type: application/json"\3 -d '{"model":"nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-NVFP4","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello, what can you do?"}],"temperature":1.0,"top_k":1}'\4| python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['choices'][0]['message']['content'])"
PDF Example (page-by-page via Python)
The API accepts images, not raw PDF files. The script below renders each page to PNG and sends it as base64. Save as pdf_vlm_chat.py and install dependencies: pip install pymupdf pillow requests.
pdf_vlm_chat.py (click to expand)
python
1#!/usr/bin/env python32"""Send PDF page(s) as images to a vLLM /v1/chat/completions endpoint."""3from __future__ import annotations
45import argparse, base64, sys
6from io import BytesIO
7from pathlib import Path
89import requests
1011try:12import fitz
13from PIL import Image
14except ImportError:15print("Install: pip install pymupdf pillow requests",file=sys.stderr)16 sys.exit(1)1718USER_PROMPT =(19"Summarize this PDF page: main topic, section headings, important facts "20"or bullets, and a brief note on each figure or table. "21"Do not invent text you cannot read."22)23API_URL ="http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions"24MODEL ="nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-NVFP4"25MAX_TOKENS =3200026DPI =150272829defpage_to_b64(pdf_path:str, idx:int)->str:30 doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)31 z = DPI /72.032 pix = doc.load_page(idx).get_pixmap(matrix=fitz.Matrix(z, z))33 img = Image.frombytes("RGB",[pix.width, pix.height], pix.samples)34 doc.close()35 buf = BytesIO()36 img.save(buf,format="PNG")37return base64.b64encode(buf.getvalue()).decode("ascii")383940defchat(url, model, b64, text, max_tokens):41 r = requests.post(url, json={42"model": model,43"messages":[{"role":"user","content":[44{"type":"text","text": text},45{"type":"image_url","image_url":{"url":f"data:image/png;base64,{b64}"}},46]}],47"max_tokens": max_tokens,48"stream":False,49"temperature":1.0,50"chat_template_kwargs":{"enable_thinking":False},51}, timeout=120)52 r.raise_for_status()53return r.json()["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]545556defmain():57 p = argparse.ArgumentParser()58 p.add_argument("pdf")59 p.add_argument("--page",type=int, default=0)60 p.add_argument("--all-pages", action="store_true")61 p.add_argument("-o","--output")62 p.add_argument("--url", default=API_URL)63 p.add_argument("--model", default=MODEL)64 p.add_argument("--max-tokens",type=int, default=MAX_TOKENS)65 a = p.parse_args()6667 doc = fitz.open(a.pdf); n =len(doc); doc.close()68 pages =range(n)if a.all_pages else[a.page]69 parts =[f"# Extracted: {Path(a.pdf).name}\n\n*Pages: {n}*\n"]if a.all_pages else[]7071for i in pages:72print(f"Page {i+1}/{n} ...",file=sys.stderr)73 b64 = page_to_b64(a.pdf, i)74 text = chat(a.url, a.model, b64,f"Page {i+1}.\n\n{USER_PROMPT}", a.max_tokens)75 parts.append(f"\n---\n\n## Page {i+1}\n\n{text.strip()}\n"if a.all_pages else text.strip())7677 out ="\n".join(parts)78if a.output:79 Path(a.output).write_text(out +"\n", encoding="utf-8")80else:81print(out)8283if __name__ =="__main__":84 main()
In the Python heredoc pattern, use False (Python boolean), not false (invalid Python).
We recommend thinking mode for tasks that involve reasoning and complex understanding. For video, audio, and omni use cases, try both enabling and disabling thinking for best results.
Advanced: Budget-Controlled Reasoning
python
1from typing import Any, Dict, List
23from openai import OpenAI
4from transformers import AutoTokenizer
567classThinkingBudgetClient:8def__init__(self, base_url:str, api_key:str, tokenizer_name_or_path:str):9 self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(10 tokenizer_name_or_path, trust_remote_code=True11)12 self.client = OpenAI(base_url=base_url, api_key=api_key)1314defchat_completion(15 self,16 model:str,17 messages: List[Dict[str, Any]],18 reasoning_budget:int=512,19 max_tokens:int=1024,20**kwargs,21)-> Dict[str, Any]:22assert max_tokens > reasoning_budget,(23f"reasoning_budget must be less than max_tokens. "24f"Got {max_tokens=} and {reasoning_budget=}"25)2627# Step 1: generate only the reasoning trace up to the requested budget.28 response = self.client.chat.completions.create(29 model=model,30 messages=messages,31 max_tokens=reasoning_budget,32 extra_body={33"top_k":1,34"chat_template_kwargs":{35"enable_thinking":True,36},37},38**kwargs,39)40 reasoning_content = response.choices[0].message.content or""41if"</think>"notin reasoning_content:42print("No </think> found in reasoning content")43 reasoning_content =f"{reasoning_content}</think>\n\n"4445 reasoning_tokens_len =len(46 self.tokenizer.encode(reasoning_content, add_special_tokens=False)47)48 remaining_tokens = max_tokens - reasoning_tokens_len
49assert remaining_tokens >0,(50f"No tokens remaining for response ({remaining_tokens=}). "51"Increase max_tokens or lower reasoning_budget."52)5354# Step 2: continue from the closed reasoning trace and ask for the final answer.55 continued_messages = messages +[56{"role":"assistant","content": reasoning_content}57]58 prompt = self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(59 continued_messages,60 tokenize=False,61 continue_final_message=True,62)63 response = self.client.completions.create(64 model=model,65 prompt=prompt,66 max_tokens=remaining_tokens,67 extra_body={"top_k":1},68**kwargs,69)7071return{72"reasoning_content": reasoning_content.strip(),73"content": response.choices[0].text,74"finish_reason": response.choices[0].finish_reason,75}
Video Tuning
Frame sampling (--media-io-kwargs)
Without explicit settings, vLLM may default to ~32 frames per video regardless of length. Always set --media-io-kwargs at server launch (already included in the General Invocation above):
Higher values improve temporal coverage but increase VRAM and prefill time. Start at the low end of the range and increase as your workload and latency budget allow.
Notes
Reasoning default: Reasoning is on by default. If you omit chat_template_kwargs, the model will produce chain-of-thought traces in content. This is appropriate for text and image inputs.
Video frame sampling: The default (~32 frames) is too conservative for most real videos. Set --media-io-kwargs at server launch.
PDF input format: The API does not accept raw PDF uploads. Render pages to PNG and send as base64 (see PDF Example above).
max_tokens vs --max-model-len:max_tokens in the request caps only the completion (generated output). It cannot exceed the server's --max-model-len, which is the hard ceiling for prompt + completion combined. Increase the server flag if you need longer outputs.
Jetson Deployment
For Jetson deployments, vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, and TensorRT Edge-LLM are supported inference frameworks; see the Jetson AI Lab model page for more details.
TensorRT Edge-LLM support is only for Jetson Thor; TensorRT-LLM is not supported on Jetson.
Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets:
Dataset Overview
Total Size: 354,587,705 data points (~717.0B tokens) Total Number of Datasets: 1395 dataset entries
Dataset partition: Training [100%], Testing [N/A — evaluation benchmarks used separately], Validation [N/A — evaluation benchmarks used separately] Time period for training data collection: 2019–2025 Time period for testing data collection: N/A (standard public benchmarks) Time period for validation data collection: N/A (standard public benchmarks)
Dataset Description
Nemotron-Omni extends our commitment from text to multimodal, delivering the same level of openness across text, audio, image, and video.
Adapter and encoder training scale: ~127B tokens across mixed modalities spanning text+image, text+video, text+audio, and text+video+audio—reflecting real-world, contextualized interactions versus single-modality data.
Post-training for real-world tasks: ~124M curated examples across multimodal combinations (text+audio, text+image, text+video, and text+video+audio), structured to support document reasoning, computer use, and long-horizon workflows.
RL environments for agent training: 20 RL datasets across 25 environments covering 5 new multimodal tasks—visual grounding, chart and document understanding, vision-critical STEM problems, video understanding, and automatic speech recognition—extending Nemotron's RL pipeline beyond text into vision and audio.
Modality Breakdown:
Modality
Dataset Entries
Samples
Est. Tokens (M)
text+audio
220
259,178,821
143,533.1
text+image
750
70,143,901
180,347.1
text+video
241
15,837,673
239,631.5
text+video+audio
155
8,720,044
152,499.2
text
12
707,187
958.4
Total
1395
354,587,705
716,969.2
Training data for Nemotron-Omni was assembled from a diverse collection of audio, image, video, and text datasets. Raw datasets were first converted into a standardized JSONL format with unified conversation-turn structure. Audio data was resampled to 16 kHz where needed. Image and video datasets were paired with question-answer annotations, often regenerated or refined using large vision-language models to improve quality and consistency. Quality filtering was applied using model-based judges to remove low-quality, unsafe, or off-topic samples. Deduplication and CSAM scanning were performed across all image datasets. Data was then packed into fixed-length sequences (32k, 128k, or 256k tokens) for efficient training.
Multiple safety measures were implemented throughout the data pipeline. All image/text datasets underwent CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) scanning, with results tracked per dataset. Content safety filtering was applied using two independent safety judge models to flag and remove samples containing harmful content including weapons references, criminal planning, sexual content involving minors, harassment, hate speech, profanity, threats, violence, or suicide-related content. Synthetic data generation pipelines included explicit quality and safety filtering stages. Identity-fix processing was applied to correct potential biases in generated responses. The multi-stage pipeline (original → cleaned → clean+safe → clean+safe+holdout) ensured progressive refinement, with each stage removing additional problematic content.
We built on the base model, applying additional training, enhancements, and optimizations on top of it.
Public Datasets
Dataset
Samples
% of Public
Tokens (M)
Modality
MiraData
28,252,307
55.53%
14,181.3
text+audio+video
laion-disco-12M
7,507,574
14.7%
22,691.0
text+audio
YouTube Video
2,057,000
4.0%
15,390
text+video
YouTube Video and Audio
1,164,000
2.2%
18,730
text+video+audio
Private Datasets
Dataset
Samples
% of Private
Tokens (M)
Modality
Granary
23,370,274
8.0%
1,471.7
text+audio
SIFT-50M
22,837,500
7.8%
5,241.7
text+audio
Self-Sourced Synthetic Data
Overall Size: 41,502,625 samples across modalities: text+audio, text+image, text+video
Description of synthetic data generation methods:
Synthetic data generation (SDG) was used to improve data quality, generate reasoning traces, re-label annotations, and augment existing datasets. Methods include: re-captioning images and audio using vision-language models, generating question-answer pairs from existing media, producing thinking/reasoning chains for complex tasks, paraphrasing prompts for diversity, and applying model-based quality filtering.
NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets
Dataset
Modality
Count
Models Used
GroundCUA
text+image
2,797,851
gpt-oss-120b, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
OpenImages
text+image
2,556,412
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
MMTrail
text+audio
1,620,533
Qwen3-omni-captioner, gpt-oss-120B
Localized Narratives
text+image
1,511,812
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
ALLaVA
text+image
1,414,130
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
VGG-Sound
text+audio
1,371,167
Qwen3-omni-captioner, gpt-oss-120B
PIXMO-CAP
text+image
1,308,838
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
TTS-Synthesized Nemotron-Nano-3 SFT Data
text+audio
1,226,784
NVIDIA Magpie TTS
MINT-1T
text+image
904,035
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct, Gemini 3 Pro for filtering, Scene Text models (RTX) translate
ScaleCUA
text+image
889,010
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
AgentNet
text+image
878,986
Kimi-K2.5
Conceptual Captions 3M-30b
text+image
867,065
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking-FP8
MetaMathQA
text+image
860,656
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Mulberry-SFT COT
text+image
566,982
GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
CC for OCR
text+image
522,595
SwinDocSegmenter, DeepSeek OCR, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Qwen3-32B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering, GPT-4o mini for filtering & quality checks, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking-FP8, gpt-oss-120b
Charxiv-100K
text+image
272,104
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking, GPT-4o for filtering, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
SwinDocSegmenter
text+image
207,200
SwinDocSegmenter, DeepSeek OCR
CLEVR
text+image, text+video
197,027
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
InternVL-Data
text+image
185,395
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Flickr30k Entities
text+image
154,760
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Metropolis and Lita
text+video
150,434
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
TextCaps
text+image
136,911
Commercial VILA model, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
Vision R1 Llava CoT
text+image
126,024
GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
HC-STVG
text+video
124,902
NVIDIA relabeled using Qwen model (Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct)
nvPDFtex
text+image
118,351
gpt-oss-120b, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
ChartQA
text+image
111,602
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering, Qwen2-VL-72B (NV)
ECD-10k-Images
text+image
110,697
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
SAMA-COCO
text+image
102,965
gpt-oss-120B
VisualWebInstruct
text+image
97,746
Earlier SDG, GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
Spatial
text+image
95,532
Microsoft Florence-2-large
DoubtNut
text+image
94,919
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Cosmos Nemotron SFTv13.9
text+image
92,128
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
CrossTask
text+video
76,495
NVIDIA relabeled using Qwen model (Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct)
RefCOCO
text+image
69,850
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Mantis Instruct
text+image
66,975
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Visual7W
text+image
62,589
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
ScreenQA
text+image
62,186
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
VQAV2
text+image
54,899
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
TallyQA
text+image
50,073
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
KeenSight
text+image
49,849
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
GQA
text+image
42,182
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
AskFilo
text+image
41,807
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Raven
text+image
41,996
gpt-oss-120b
DocVQA
text+image
35,759
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
TextVQA
text+image
34,602
Commercial VILA model, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
COCO
text+image
32,111
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
PlotQA
text+image
30,665
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
SlideVQA
text+image
11,199
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
OCR Reason Finance
text+image
9,389
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
GeomVerse
text+image
9,298
GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
NextQA
text+video
8,903
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
UniGeo
text+image
8,822
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
Vedantu
text+audio, text+image
8,750
NVIDIA Magpie TTS, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
GPQA
text+audio
7,657
NVIDIA Magpie TTS
SLAKE
text+image
7,294
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
OpenGVLab
text+image
7,269
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking, GPT-4o for filtering
PerceptionTest
text+video
5,192
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
InvoicesQA
text+image
4,817
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
EgoProcel
text+video
4,660
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct
SynthTabNet
text+image
4,364
gpt-oss-120b
SerpAPI
text+image
3,784
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Gemini 3 Flash Preview for filtering
FinTabNet
text+image
3,852
gpt-oss-120b
FastMath
text+image
3,718
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8
ASR Data Derived Speech-to-Text Chat Data
text+audio
3,608
GPT-OSS 120B
Geometry3k
text+image
2,078
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking-FP8
VQA-RAD
text+image
1,270
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
RQA
text+audio
959
NVIDIA Magpie TTS
HierText OCRQA Qwen
text+image
514
Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct
Training Dataset:
Data Modality
Audio
Image
Text
Video
Audio Training Data Size
10,000 to 1 Million Hours
(267,898,865 audio-containing samples)
Image Training Data Size
1 Million to 1 Billion Images
(70,143,901 image-containing samples)
Text Training Data Size
1 Billion to 10 Trillion Tokens
(~717.0B tokens total across all modalities)
Video Training Data Size
10,000 to 1 Million Hours
(24,557,717 video-containing samples)
Data Collection Method by dataset
Hybrid: Human, Automated, Synthetic
Labeling Method by dataset
Hybrid: Human, Automated, Synthetic
Properties (Quantity, Dataset Descriptions, Sensor(s)): 354,587,705 total data items across 1395 datasets. The training data spans five modality combinations: text+audio (259,178,821 samples), text+image (70,143,901 samples), text+video (15,837,673 samples), text+video+audio (8,720,044 samples), and text-only (707,187 samples). Content includes publicly available academic datasets, licensed third-party data, NVIDIA-internal collections, and synthetically generated annotations. The data is primarily in English. No sensor-derived data was used.
Evaluation Dataset:
Benchmark Scores:
Task
Multimodal Benchmarks
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
Nemotron Nano VL V2
% Improvement
Grounding
CVBench2D
83.95
78.3
6.73
Document
OCRBenchV2 (EN)
67.04
54.8
18.26
Computer Use
OSWorld
47.4
11.1
76.58
Chart Reasoning
Charxiv Reasoning
63.6
41.3
35.06
Multi-Image Reasoning
MMlongBench Doc
57.5
38
33.91
Math Reasoning
MathVista_MINI
82.8
75.5
8.82
OCR Reasoning
OCR_Reasoning
54.14
33.9
33.87
Video Q/A
Video MME
72.2
-
-
Video + Audio Q/A
World Sense
55.4
-
-
Video + Audio Q/A
Daily Omni
74.52
-
-
Speech Instruction Following
Voice interaction
89.39
-
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Quantization Benchmark Scores:
We release FP8 and NVFP4 quantized variants alongside the BF16 model. The FP8 variant quantizes every linear layer in the language model to per-tensor E4M3 (with the exception of the MoE router and lm_head) and pairs it with an FP8 KV cache, yielding 8.5 effective bits per weight (32.8 GB). The NVFP4 variant uses a mixed-precision recipe inspired by Nemotron 3 Super: routed MoE experts are quantized to NVFP4 (FP4 E2M1 values with per-block FP8 E4M3 scales over groups of 16 elements and an additional per-tensor FP32 global scale), while the Mamba in_proj / out_proj, shared experts, and attention o_proj are quantized to FP8, yielding 4.98 effective bits per weight (20.9 GB). In both variants the vision and audio encoders and their MLP projectors are kept in BF16.
The table below reports FP8 & NVFP4 accuracy against a BF16 baseline using non-reasoning mode. Across 9 multimodal benchmarks, both quantized variants stay within 1 point of BF16 on average.
Footprint
BF16
FP8
NVFP4
Size (GB)
61.5
32.8
20.9
Effective bpw
16.00
8.5
4.98
Benchmark
BF16
FP8
NVFP4
MathVista_MINI
71.90
71.05
71.30
Charxiv Reasoning
49.10
48.05
47.95
MMlongBench Doc
46.10
45.84
45.78
OCRBenchV2 (EN)
65.80
65.63
65.77
CVBench2D
84.20
85.62
85.27
Video MME
70.80
69.40
69.60
Daily Omni
74.50
74.06
74.23
World Sense
55.20
54.40
54.60
MMAU
74.62
74.56
74.34
Tedium Long (WER↓)
3.11
3.12
3.04
HF-ASR (WER↓)
5.95
5.97
5.95
Mean (9 non-ASR)
65.80
65.40
65.43
Median (9 non-ASR)
70.80
69.40
69.60
Δ vs BF16 (mean)
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−0.40
−0.38
Data Collection Method by dataset:
Hybrid: Human, Automated — Evaluation benchmarks are primarily human-curated public academic datasets with automated scoring.
Labeling Method by dataset:
Human
Properties (Quantity, Dataset Descriptions, Sensor(s)): 14 evaluation benchmarks spanning image understanding (MathVistaMini, Charxiv Reasoning, MMLongBench-Doc, OCR Reasoning, OCRBenchV2 English, CVBench2D, OSWorld), video understanding (Video MME), audio/speech understanding (VoiceBench, Tedium Long, HF-ASR, MMAU, World Sense), and multimodal omni-understanding (Daily Omni). All benchmarks are publicly available academic datasets in English.
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We recommend following settings for reaching the optimal performance.
Sampling Parameters
We suggest the following sampling parameters based on the mode and tasks.
Thinking mode for long document analysis and multimodal reasoning tasks: temperature=0.5-0.7, top_p=0.95, grace_period=1024, reasoning_budget=16384, max_token=20480, and max_model_len=210000
Instruct mode (non-thinking) for general tasks: temperature=0.2, top_k=1
For ASR tasks, we recommend non-thinking mode with
temperature=0.2, top_k=1
Model output length
For most multimodel reasoning tasks, we recommend using output length of at least 20480. For complex reasoning questions especially in math and programing increasing the maximum output length to 131072 tokens can give the model enough room to produce more detailed and correct answers. We also found the proposed Budget-Controlled Reasoning effectiveness in answering complex reasoning questions.
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