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Sep, 23, 2026

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Nemotron 3 Super (NVIDIA et al., 2026) 提出了在不同的 head 之间共享参数来解决 distribution shift 的问题

Nemotron 3 Ultra (NVIDIA, :, Blakeman, et al., 2026) 提出了 MTP boosting 来解决训练推理不一致性的问题

MiMo-V2.6 (Xiaomi MiMo Team, 2026) 基于 DFlash 构建了 MTP, 其 MTP 模块包含 5 个 transformer layers, 预测深度为 7, 其架构信息如下所示

ModelMiMo-V2.6-FlashMiMo-V2.6-Pro
Layers (Total/SWA/GA)5/5/05/5/0
Hidden Size40966144
SWA Heads (Q/KV)64/8128/8
Sliding Window Size10241024
GA Heads (Q/KV)64/4128/8
Head Dimensions (QK/V)128/128128/128

Training

Pre-training

Pre-training 包含 2 个 stage:

  1. stage 1: 作者仅训练 LLM backbone
  2. stage 2: 加入 ViT 和 audio encoder, 联合进行训练

训练时,上下文从 32K 逐渐扩展到 256K, 训练数据如下表所示

ModelMiMo-V2.6-FlashMiMo-V2.6-Pro
Stage 1 (text)26T22T
Stage 2 (omni)27T3T

训练使用了 Adamw (Loshchilov & Hutter, 2019) optimizer.

Mid-training

mid-training 也包含 2 个 stage:

  1. 256k context length
  2. 1M context length

为了支持 large batch RL 训练,作者在 mid-training 阶段使用了 Muown optimizer, 一个 Muon [@Muon] 的变体,Muown 在 Muon 的基础上加入了 row-norm control 来减少 spectral-norm drift 和 sensitivity.

作者还使用了 MXFP4 QAT 来实现低精度训练。

Post-training

Post-training 包含 SFT 和 RL 两个阶段,作者主要强调了 RL 阶段的训练

  1. Loshchilov, I., & Hutter, F. (2019). Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization. International Conference on Learning Representations. https://openreview.net/forum?id=Bkg6RiCqY7
  2. NVIDIA, :, Blakeman, A., Thomas, A., Jhunjhunwala, A., Gupta, A., Khattar, A., Rajfer, A., Renduchintala, A., Asif, A., Vavre, A., Miranda, A. F., Bilal, A., Zaman, A., Hotchandani, A., Shukla, A., Bercovich, A., Ficek, A., Gronskiy, A., … Wertheimer, Z.-A. (2026). Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15007
  3. NVIDIA, :, Chandiramani, A., Blakeman, A., Olaoye, A., Gupta, A., Somasamudramath, A., Khattar, A., Adesoba, A., Renduchintala, A., Asif, A., Agrawal, A., Vavre, A., Kiswani, A., Padmakumar, A., Hotchandani, A., Shukla, A., Bercovich, A., Ficek, A., … Ahmed, Z. (2026). Nemotron 3 Super: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12374
  4. Xiaomi MiMo Team. (2026). MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL. https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL