Model Overview

Description:

Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Principle is a large language model that leverages Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct as the foundation and is fine-tuned to predict the extent to which LLM-generated responses fulfils user-specified principles.

Given a conversation with multiple turns between the user and assistant (of up to 4,096 tokens), and a user-specified principle, it rates the quality of the final assistant turn using a reward score.

For the same prompt, a response with higher reward score fulfils the user-specified principle to a larger extent than another response with a lower reward score.

As of 24 Sep 2025, this model achieves JudgeBench of 76.3% and RM-Bench of 83.6% which make it among the top Scalar Reward Models for both benchmarks.

See details on how this model was trained at https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21319

License/Terms of Use:

GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Open Model License . Additional Information: Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement. Built with Llama.

Deployment Geography

Global

Use Case:

Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Principle labels an LLM-generated response to a user query and a user-specified principle with a reward score.

Release Date:

HuggingFace 10/27/2025 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Principle

References:

RM-Bench LeaderBoard

As of 24 Sep 2025, our reward models are top performing reward models on RM-Bench, an improved variant of RewardBench for evaluating Reward Models in Chat, Math, Code and Safety.

Model	Chat	Math	Code	Safety	Easy	Normal	Hard	Overall RM-Bench
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Principle	85.3	81.9	70.4	96.9	85.5	84.9	80.5	83.6
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Multilingual	86.2	82.4	66.8	94.1	86.5	85.4	80.0	82.4
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward	75.4	84.5	69.3	90.4	92.1	85.7	71.1	79.9
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Reward	70.7	64.3	57.4	90.3	92.2	76.8	48.0	70.7
Skywork-Reward-Gemma-2-27B	71.8	59.2	56.6	94.3	89.6	75.4	50.0	70.5
Skywork-Reward-Llama-3.1-8B	69.5	60.6	54.5	95.7	89.0	74.7	46.6	70.1

Note that Skywork-Reward-Llama-3.1-8B was the best performing reward model reported on RM-Bench and we evaluated all other models.

JudgeBench LeaderBoard

As of 24 Sep 2025, our reward models are the top performing Scalar reward models on JudgeBench, a popular benchmark for evaluating LLM-as-a-judge applications relating to General Knowledge, Logical Reasoning, Math and Coding.

Model	Knowl.	Reason.	Math	Code	Overall JudgeBench
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Principle	74.0	74.5	82.1	81.0	76.3
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward	70.8	76.5	82.1	66.7	73.7
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Multilingual	66.2	71.4	82.1	59.5	69.4
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Reward	62.3	72.5	76.8	57.1	66.9
Skywork-Reward-Gemma-2-27B	59.7	66.3	83.9	50.0	64.3
Skywork-Reward-Llama-3.1-8B	59.1	64.3	76.8	50.0	62.3

Note that Skywork-Reward-Gemma-2-27B was the best performing reward model reported on JudgeBench and we evaluated all other models.

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformer
Network Architecture: Llama 3.3

We developed this model using Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct as its foundation. This model contains 70 billion parameters.

Input:

Input Type(s): Text
Input Format: String
Input Parameters: One Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Input: Max of 128k tokens (but trained only on conversations up to 4K tokens)

Output:

Output Type(s): Float
Output Format: One Single Float
Output Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D)
Other Properties Related to Output: The float value represents the extent to which the response fulfils the user-specified principle, with a higher value representing greater fulfilment.

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

Software Integration:

Runtime Engine(s):

[NeMo - 24.05.llama.3.1]

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA Hopper
NVIDIA Turing

Supported Operating System(s): Linux

Quick Start

You can use the model using HuggingFace Transformers library with 2 or more 80GB GPUs (NVIDIA Ampere or newer) with at least 150GB of free disk space to accomodate the download.

This code has been tested on Transformers v4.45.0, torch v2.3.0a0+40ec155e58.nv24.3 and 2 H100 80GB GPUs, but any setup that supports meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct should support this model as well. If you run into problems, you can consider doing pip install -U transformers.

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "nvidia/Llama-3.3-Nemotron-70B-Reward-Principle"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

prompt = "What is 1+1?"
good_response = "1+1=2"
bad_response = "1+1=3"
principle = "correctness"


principle_question = f"Evaluate the response to the previous prompt in terms of whether it satisfies this principle: {principle}. Only answer Yes or No."

for response in [good_response, bad_response]:
    messages = [{'role': "user", "content": prompt}, {'role': "assistant", "content": response}, {'role': "user", "content": principle_question}]
    tokenized_message = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt", return_dict=True)
    response_token_ids = model.generate(tokenized_message['input_ids'].cuda(),attention_mask=tokenized_message['attention_mask'].cuda(),  max_new_tokens=1, return_dict_in_generate=True, output_scores=True)
    score_no = response_token_ids['scores'][0][0][2822].item()
    score_yes = response_token_ids['scores'][0][0][9642].item()
    reward = score_yes - score_no
    print(reward)
# Example reward - note that higher scores means higher principle fulfilment, and scores can be negative.
# reward for good_response = 4.875
# reward for bad_response = -4.875

Model Version:

v1.0

Training, Testing and Evaluation Datasets:

Training Datasets:

Dataset Name: HelpSteer3
Dataset Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/HelpSteer3

Data Collection Method by dataset

[Hybrid: Human, Synthetic]

Labeling Method by dataset

[Human]

Properties:

77,564 prompt-responses, each annotated with up to 3 annotations of free-text feedback (each being 50-250 words long) elaborating upon the overall helpfulness of the response.

Testing Datasets:

Dataset Name: HelpSteer3
Dataset Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/HelpSteer3

Data Collection Method by dataset

[Hybrid: Human, Synthetic]

Labeling Method by dataset

[Human]

Properties:

4,078 prompt-responses, each annotated with up to 3 annotations of free-text feedback (each being 50-250 words long) elaborating upon the overall helpfulness of the response.

Evaluation Datasets

Dataset Name: RM-Bench
Dataset Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/THU-KEG/RM-Bench

Data Collection Method by dataset

[Hybrid: Human, Synthetic]

Labeling Method by dataset

[Hybrid: Human, Synthetic]

Properties:

1,327 prompts, each with three pairs of responses as well as preferences between the pair of responses.

Dataset Name: JudgeBench
Dataset Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ScalerLab/JudgeBench

Data Collection Method by dataset

[Hybrid: Human, Synthetic]

Labeling Method by dataset

[Hybrid: Human, Synthetic]

Properties:

350 prompts, each with a pair of responses as well as preferences between the pair of responses.

Inference:

Engine: PyTorch
Test Hardware: H100, A100 80GB, A100 40GB

Ethical Considerations:

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Citation

If you find this model useful, please cite the following work:

@misc{wang2025rlbffbinaryflexiblefeedback,
      title={RLBFF: Binary Flexible Feedback to bridge between Human Feedback & Verifiable Rewards}, 
      author={Zhilin Wang and Jiaqi Zeng and Olivier Delalleau and Ellie Evans and Daniel Egert and Hoo-Chang Shin and Felipe Soares and Yi Dong and Oleksii Kuchaiev},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.21319},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21319}, 
}