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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/20/2026

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Key Points

  • Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B is based on the Nemotron 3 Nano Base with improved post-training, suggesting enhanced after-training performance.
  • Early indications show it is competitive with 120B models on math and code benchmarks, though the tester has not fully validated it yet.
  • The model is associated with a Hugging Face page and an arXiv paper (2603.19220) for review and replication.
  • The post originates from a Reddit submission by user /u/Middle_Bullfrog_6173 in r/LocalLLaMA, linking to the discussion.

Based on Nemotron 3 Nano Base, but more/better post-training. Looks competitive with 120B models on math and code benchmarks. I've yet to test.

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19220

submitted by /u/Middle_Bullfrog_6173
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