NVIDIA's Nemotron-Cascade accepted as NeurIPS 2026 oral for cascaded domain-wise RL

ctnzr · x · 2026-09-25

NVIDIA's Nemotron-Cascade paper is accepted as a NeurIPS 2026 oral. It introduces Cascaded Domain-Wise RL, a sequential pipeline training the model across domains one stage at a time. The 14B model outperforms its SFT teacher DeepSeek-R1-0528 on LiveCodeBench v5/v6/Pro; RLHF as a pre-step greatly boosts math/code/science/SWE reasoning; and later RL stages preserve and often improve earlier domain performance.

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