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author Radhakrishna, Shruthan
Parikh, Soham
Sarda, Gopal
Turkkan, Anil
Vohra, Quaizar
Li, Raymond
Jhamb, Dhruv
Ogueji, Kelechi
Shukla, Aanjaneya
Bamgbose, Oluwanifemi
Liang, Toby
Kumar, Luke
Ostapenko, Oleksiy
Malay, Shiva Krishna Reddy
Tiwari, Aman
Bogavelli, Tara
Yadav, Vikas
Mehta, Jash
Mittal, Saloni
Kalkunte, Akshay
Pattnaik, Pulkit
Slimi, Khalil
Sreeram, Anirudh
Nair, Jishnu
Oladipo, Akintunde
Maiya, Shashank
Mahajan, Khyati
Maheshwary, Rishabh
Hashemi, Masoud
Mudumba, Sai Rajeswar
Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi
Scholak, Torsten
Paquet, Sebastien
Davasam, Sagar
Sunkara, Srinivas
author_facet Radhakrishna, Shruthan
Parikh, Soham
Sarda, Gopal
Turkkan, Anil
Vohra, Quaizar
Li, Raymond
Jhamb, Dhruv
Ogueji, Kelechi
Shukla, Aanjaneya
Bamgbose, Oluwanifemi
Liang, Toby
Kumar, Luke
Ostapenko, Oleksiy
Malay, Shiva Krishna Reddy
Tiwari, Aman
Bogavelli, Tara
Yadav, Vikas
Mehta, Jash
Mittal, Saloni
Kalkunte, Akshay
Pattnaik, Pulkit
Slimi, Khalil
Sreeram, Anirudh
Nair, Jishnu
Oladipo, Akintunde
Maiya, Shashank
Mahajan, Khyati
Maheshwary, Rishabh
Hashemi, Masoud
Mudumba, Sai Rajeswar
Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi
Scholak, Torsten
Paquet, Sebastien
Davasam, Sagar
Sunkara, Srinivas
contents While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable reasoning capabilities across domains like code, math and other enterprise tasks, their significant memory and computational costs often preclude their use in practical enterprise settings. To this end, we introduce Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker, a 15-billion parameter model in the ServiceNow Apriel SLM series that achieves performance against medium sized state-of-the-art models such as o1-mini, QWQ32B, and EXAONE-Deep-32B while maintaining only half the memory footprint of those alternatives. Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker model is trained in a four stage training pipeline including 1) Base Model upscaling, 2) Continual Pre-training 3) Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT) and 4) Reinforcement Learning using GRPO. Comprehensive evaluations across a diverse suite of benchmarks consistently demonstrate that our Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker model matches or exceeds the performance of its 32-billion parameter counterparts, despite being less than half their size.
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spellingShingle Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker
Radhakrishna, Shruthan
Parikh, Soham
Sarda, Gopal
Turkkan, Anil
Vohra, Quaizar
Li, Raymond
Jhamb, Dhruv
Ogueji, Kelechi
Shukla, Aanjaneya
Bamgbose, Oluwanifemi
Liang, Toby
Kumar, Luke
Ostapenko, Oleksiy
Malay, Shiva Krishna Reddy
Tiwari, Aman
Bogavelli, Tara
Yadav, Vikas
Mehta, Jash
Mittal, Saloni
Kalkunte, Akshay
Pattnaik, Pulkit
Slimi, Khalil
Sreeram, Anirudh
Nair, Jishnu
Oladipo, Akintunde
Maiya, Shashank
Mahajan, Khyati
Maheshwary, Rishabh
Hashemi, Masoud
Mudumba, Sai Rajeswar
Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi
Scholak, Torsten
Paquet, Sebastien
Davasam, Sagar
Sunkara, Srinivas
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable reasoning capabilities across domains like code, math and other enterprise tasks, their significant memory and computational costs often preclude their use in practical enterprise settings. To this end, we introduce Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker, a 15-billion parameter model in the ServiceNow Apriel SLM series that achieves performance against medium sized state-of-the-art models such as o1-mini, QWQ32B, and EXAONE-Deep-32B while maintaining only half the memory footprint of those alternatives. Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker model is trained in a four stage training pipeline including 1) Base Model upscaling, 2) Continual Pre-training 3) Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT) and 4) Reinforcement Learning using GRPO. Comprehensive evaluations across a diverse suite of benchmarks consistently demonstrate that our Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker model matches or exceeds the performance of its 32-billion parameter counterparts, despite being less than half their size.
title Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10948