A reusable specialization recipe From general coding ability to IOI gold Teaching Nemotron to prove, check, and revise Fine-tuning and test-time compute work together Open models, data, and recipes on Hugging Face 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. Success at either competition is difficult. Success at both points to something broader.
Our recent results show that Nemotron is a strong, adaptable foundation for building world-class specialist models. Starting from Nemotron 3, our teams used supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and feedback-driven inference to create systems that reached gold-medal level at both IMO 2026 and IOI 2026.
