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Developing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 with QAD Using NVIDIA Model Optimizer

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 and Nemotron 3 Ultra…

2026-08-18 02:12 Models across 2 days 🔥 33.9 heat score
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On August 17, 2026, NVIDIA announced on its developer blog that it had developed the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 model using NVIDIA Model Optimizer, based on QAD (Quantitative Perceptual Training). Previously, on June 26, 2026, NVIDIA had released the Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 checkpoint created using the same tool. Both advancements aim to improve the quantization accuracy and inference efficiency of models through NVIDIA Model Optimizer.

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Up to 4 timesIncrease in throughput
22GBSize of the model after compression
66GBOriginal full-precision size
4 bitsNumber of bits in the floating-point format
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NVIDIANemotron 3Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4

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NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 and Nemotron 3 Ultra…

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  1. 2026-06-26

    Released Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 checkpoints

    NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Ultra model checkpoints, using the innovative 4-bit floating-point (NVFP4) quantization format to optimize weight transmission efficiency in long context windows.

  2. 2026-08-17

    Released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4

    NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 checkpoints, developed based on NVIDIA Model Optimizer. While maintaining precision, it increases throughput up to 4 times and compresses the model to 22GB (the original full-precision size is 66GB).

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N NVIDIA Developer Blog en 2026-06-27 00:00

Creating the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 Checkpoint with NVIDIA Model Optimizer

NVIDIA 发布 Nemotron 3 Ultra 模型检查点,采用其创新的 4 位浮点数(NVFP4)量化格式以优化长上下文窗口下的权重传输效率。该 NVFP4 格式是随 NVIDIA Blackwell 架构引入的新技术,旨在将模型权重压缩至更小的数据格式以提升性能。此次 Nemotron 3 Ultra 检查点由 NVIDIA Model Optimizer 工具生成,利用上述量化方案解决大模型在长上下文场景下的高效移动问题。