Congrats to our researchers for exceeding the gold medal threshold on the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2026 problem set 🥇 Our fine-tuned Nemotron model scored 535.4 out of 600, as graded by the IOI team — higher than the top-scoring human participant. The team competed unofficially in Uzbekistan, where the International Technical Committee supervised the human contestants. The model had no internet access and faced the same time limits and submission constraints, using the same platform in parallel with the official competition. Read more in the technical report: ► ↧ Post-Training Language Models for Gold-Medal Performance in Coding ... Competitive programming has become a key test of large language model reasoning, with international competitions such as IOI and ICPC representing its most challenging settings. We present an end-to-end specialization pipeline combining large-scale problem curation, synthetic reasoning traces, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement lear...