Nemotron-4 340B Technical Report

We release the Nemotron-4 340B model family, including Nemotron-4-340B-Base, Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct, and Nemotron-4-340B-Reward. Our models are open access under the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, a permissive model license that allows distribution, modification, and use of the models and its outputs. These models perform competitively to open access models on a wide range of evaluation benchmarks, and were sized to fit on a single DGX H100 with 8 GPUs when deployed in FP8 precision. We believe that the community can benefit from these models in various research studies and commercial applications, especially for generating synthetic data to train smaller language models. Notably, over 98% of data used in our model alignment process is synthetically generated, showcasing the effectiveness of these models in generating synthetic data. To further support open research and facilitate model development, we are also open-sourcing the synthetic data generation pipeline used in our model alignment process.

Nemotron-4 15B Technical Report

We introduce Nemotron-4 15B, a 15-billion-parameter large multilingual language model trained on 8 trillion text tokens. Nemotron-4 15B demonstrates strong performance when assessed on English, multilingual, and coding tasks: it outperforms all existing similarly-sized open models on 4 out of 7 downstream evaluation areas and achieves competitive performance to the leading open models in the remaining ones. Specifically, Nemotron-4 15B exhibits the best multilingual capabilities of all similarly-sized models, even outperforming models over four times larger and those explicitly specialized for multilingual tasks.

DeCLUTR: Deep Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Textual Representations

We present DeCLUTR: Deep Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Textual Representations, a self-supervised method for learning universal sentence embeddings that transfer to a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Our objective leverages recent advances in deep metric learning (DML) and has the advantage of being conceptually simple and easy to implement, requiring no specialized architectures or labelled training data. We demonstrate that our objective can be used to pretrain transformers to state-of-the-art performance on SentEval, a popular benchmark for evaluating universal sentence embeddings, outperforming existing supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised methods. We perform extensive ablations to determine which factors contribute to the quality of the learned embeddings. Our code will be publicly available and can be easily adapted to new datasets or used to embed unseen text.