Nemotron fine-tune reaches gold-medal level at IOI and IMO 2026
What happened
On 7 October 2026, the Hugging Face Blog published a first-hand report from the NVIDIA team: starting from Nemotron 3, the team fine-tuned with SFT, RL and a feedback-driven reasoning pipeline, bringing the model to gold-medal level in both IOI 2026 and IMO 2026. According to the report, Nemotron-3-Ultra-CC scored 535.4/600 at IOI 2026, above the 361.12 gold-medal line and the human high score of 498.27; the system scored 30/42 at IMO 2026, above the official gold-medal line of 29, with full marks on four of six problems. So far this is the only report on the event, with no follow-up or contradiction to earlier coverage.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 9 d ago
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- Hugging Face BlogSelectedOne Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) and the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) test different skills. IOI requires algorithms and code that pass hidden tests under strict time and submission limits. IMO demands rigorous natural-language proofs.
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