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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B v1

Model Overview

Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 LLM is a derivative of Meta Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct model. It is a reasoning model that is post trained for reasoning, human chat preferences, and tasks, such as RAG and tool calling.

Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 offers a great tradeoff between model accuracy and efficiency. The model fits on a single RTX GPU and can be used locally. The model supports a context length of 128K.

This model underwent a multi-phase post-training process to enhance both its reasoning and non-reasoning capabilities. This includes a supervised fine-tuning stage for Math, Code, Reasoning, and Tool Calling as well as multiple reinforcement learning (RL) stages using REINFORCE (RLOO) and Online Reward-aware Preference Optimization (RPO) algorithms for both chat and instruction-following. The final model checkpoint is obtained after merging the final SFT and Online RPO checkpoints. Improved using Qwen.

  • Model Architecture: Dense decoder-only Transformer model
  • Model Developer: NVIDIA
  • Model Release Date: 3/18/2025
  • Model Source: nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1
  • License: nvidia-open-model-license

QPC Configurations

Precision SoCs / Tensor slicing NSP-Cores (per SoC) Full Batch Size Chunking Prompt Length Context Length (CL) Generated URL Download Generation Date
MXFP6 2 16 1 128 4096 https://dc00tk1pxen80.cloudfront.net/SDK1.20.4/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1_qpc_16cores_128pl_4096cl_1fbs_2devices_mxfp6_mxint8.tar.gz Download 21-Jan-2026

Run This Model

# Download QPC
mkdir -p nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1
cd nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1
wget <Download URL>
tar xzvf <downloaded filename.tar.gz>

# Run QPC
python3 -m QEfficient.cloud.execute --model_name nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 --qpc_path <path/to/qpc> --prompt "# shortest path algorithm\n" --generation_len 128

API Endpoint

# Start REST endpoint with vLLM
VLLM_QAIC_MAX_CPU_THREADS=8 VLLM_QAIC_QPC_PATH=/path/to/qpc python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8000 \
  --model nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 \
  --max-model-len <Context Length> \
  --max-num-seq <Full Batch Size>  \
  --max-seq_len-to-capture <Chunking Prompt Length>  \
  --device qaic \
  --block-size 32