Skills by Jonathan Jing

Score a RAG answer against its retrieved contexts with Ragas metrics and a configurable judge.

Use when a user asks to build, optimize, backtest, rebalance, or analyze a stock portfolio with Mean-CVaR, Mean-Variance/SOCP variance caps, efficient frontiers, scenario generation, or NVIDIA cuOpt.

Write and migrate code with DALI's imperative API

LP, MILP, QP — concepts, problem-text parsing, and formulation patterns (parameters, constraints, decisions, objective). Concepts only; no API.

Vehicle routing (VRP, TSP, PDP) with cuOpt — Python API only. Use when the user is building or solving routing in Python.

Guide for selecting and configuring distributed training strategies in NeMo AutoModel, including FSDP2, Megatron FSDP, DDP, and parallelism settings.

Recommend and customize Megatron Bridge library and benchmark recipes for a user's model, GPU count, hardware, sequence length, and pretrain/SFT/PEFT goal. Use when selecting a starting recipe, comparing library and benchmark configs, resizing parallelism for a GPU allocation, or distinguishing convergence changes, semantics-preserving execution tuning, and benchmark-only shortcuts.

Diagnose and optimize OpenUSD scene performance

Trace, complete, and interpret the Pareto frontier across competing objectives using repeated single-objective cuOpt solves (weighted-sum and ε-constraint).

Validate and use MoE expert-parallel communication overlap in Megatron-Bridge, including overlap_moe_expert_parallel_comm, delay_wgrad_compute, and flex dispatcher backends such as DeepEP and HybridEP.

Use when searching, extracting, ingesting, or querying a document collection with the NeMo Retriever 26.8.1 CLI, including local LanceDB indexes and deployed Retriever services. Use for PDFs, images, Office files, HTML, text, audio, and video; not for editing documents or web search.

Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads.

Install cuOpt for Python, C, or server via pip, conda, or Docker; verify the install. For building cuOpt from source, see cuopt-developer.

Used for extracting selected metadata from one DICOM file and flagging standard-tag PHI presence. Not for anonymization or clinical use.

Guide for onboarding new model architectures into NeMo AutoModel, including architecture discovery, implementation patterns, registration, and validation.

Create and modify NeMo AutoModel training and evaluation recipes, including YAML structure, builders, and execution flow.

Validate and use selective and full activation recompute in Megatron Bridge to reduce GPU memory usage at the cost of extra compute. Use for activation memory OOMs or regressions involving recompute_granularity, recompute_num_layers, recompute_modules, recompute_method, selective recompute, full recompute, or activation checkpointing.

MoE expert-parallel communication overlap in Megatron Bridge. Covers dispatch/combine overlap, flex dispatcher backends, and expert wgrad scheduling.

Representative, point-in-time MoE training playbooks by hardware and model family. Use them as candidate seeds, then revalidate the exact runtime, semantics, topology, and steady-state throughput.

Evidence-gated workflow for MoE performance optimization in Megatron Bridge. Covers measurement contracts, the Three Walls framework, parallel folding, profiling, matched A/B tuning, and final validation.

Validate and use packed sequences and long-context training in Megatron-Bridge, including offline LLM packing, collate-time VLM packing, Energon online packing, and CP constraints.

Router for NVIDIA NuRec/NRE: USDZ rendering, NCore conversion, 3DGS, gRPC sensor sim, carline adaptation, PhysicalAI HF datasets. Do NOT use for SimReady or infra setup.

Extract false-positive and false-negative gaps from VLM binary-classification-question (BCQ, yes/no) predictions. Use when the user asks to "analyze VLM BCQ gaps", "extract VLM false positives and false negatives", or identify failure cases from a predictions JSON for DEFT root-cause analysis on a binary-classification VLM workflow.

Run `tao-daft convert` to convert NVIDIA TAO DAFT datasets between supported formats. Do not use for non-DAFT data. Use when the user asks to convert a DAFT dataset, change DAFT format, change a TAO dataset format, or run `tao-daft convert`.

Multi-step video annotation pipeline that turns raw videos into Chain-of-Thought training data — multi-level captions, structured descriptions, and QA pairs (MCQ, binary, open-ended) with reasoning traces, via VLM/LLM distillation. Use when the user wants to "create video training data", "generate video QA datasets", "build CoT reasoning traces from videos", "auto-label videos", or run the video_reasoning_annotation pipeline. Triggers include "video annotation", "video CoT", "video QA", "chain-of-thought", "video captioning pipeline", "video distillation".

Answer what the TAO Skill Bank plugin can do by generating the response from packaged application, data, model, AutoML, and platform manifests. Use when the user asks "what can TAO Skill Bank do", "list TAO models", "which TAO workflows are available", or "what supports AutoML".

Integrate a HuggingFace Computer Vision model into the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit ecosystem (tao-core config, tao-pytorch trainer, tao-deploy TensorRT pipeline). Use when the user asks to "integrate a HuggingFace model into TAO", "add an HF model to TAO Toolkit", "wire a HuggingFace ViT/DETR/ SegFormer into tao-pytorch", "build a TAO trainer + deploy pipeline for an HF CV model", or pastes a HuggingFace model URL/ID and wants it turned into a TAO model. Covers the full 7-phase loop: prerequisites check, HuggingFace inspection and validation, codebase exploration, tao-core configuration and native trainer implementation, ONNX export plus TensorRT deploy integration, packaging and L0 testing, container-based end-to-end validation, and (conditional) accuracy/latency tuning. Supports classification, object detection, semantic / instance / panoptic segmentation, zero-shot detection, and depth estimation.

Run container-backed AutoML / hyperparameter optimization (HPO) for NVIDIA TAO networks using AutoMLRunner. Handles algorithm selection (bayesian, hyperband, asha, bohb, llm, hybrid, autoresearch), WandB experiment tracking, job execution on any TAO SDK platform, result interpretation, and per-rec custom evaluation hooks. Use when the user mentions TAO AutoML, hyperparameter optimization, HPO, automl, automl_settings, AutoMLRunner, tao_automl, bayesian search, hyperband, ASHA, LLM-guided search, autoresearch, or wants to tune train/evaluate/inference/distill/prune/quantize for a TAO network. Model actions use the resolved image; venv training requires an explicit request. Platform-agnostic — runs on any SDK (Brev, SLURM, Kubernetes, Docker). Do not use generic "keep improving" language alone to override a matching domain-specific DEFT workflow; attribute-labelled CLIP / SigLIP image-retrieval loops belong to tao-run-deft-pas unless HPO is explicit.

Run the canonical NVIDIA AOI three-phase training pipeline — Phase 1 AutoML baseline (HPO), Phase 2 DEFT loop (RCA → SDG → mining → plain-train retrain), Phase 3 AutoML refinement on the DEFT-augmented dataset. Use when the user asks to "run the AOI workflow", "fine-tune my PCB AOI model end-to-end", "improve my AOI ChangeNet model", or "AOI workflow with AutoML" request — route here instead of tao-run-deft-aoi directly unless the user explicitly asks for the DEFT loop ONLY (e.g. "run JUST the DEFT loop", "skip AutoML, only DEFT"). Also handles the same three-phase pattern for non-AOI DEFT applications — AutoML baseline then DEFT loop warm-started from AutoML's winning HPs then post-DEFT AutoML refinement on the iteration-augmented dataset. Trigger phrases include "run the AOI workflow", "AOI end-to-end", "AutoML + DEFT", "AutoML then DEFT", "tune hyperparameters then DEFT", "DEFT with AutoML at both ends", "warm-start DEFT", "improve my AOI model".

Kubernetes execution platform — submits TAO container jobs as k8s Jobs with NVIDIA GPU scheduling; single-pod for one node, Indexed Jobs for multi-node distributed training. Use when running on EKS / GKE / AKS / on-prem clusters with the NVIDIA GPU Operator installed, or when integrating TAO into an existing k8s-native ML platform.

Remote SLURM GPU cluster execution over SSH with sbatch/srun, Pyxis/Enroot containers, and Lustre-backed results. Use when running TAO training/eval/inference jobs on an on-prem or DGX SLURM cluster. Trigger phrases include "run on SLURM", "submit sbatch", "DGX SLURM cluster", "Pyxis/Enroot container", "Lustre dataset".

Host setup for TAO GPU backends. Checks and, after user approval, installs minimum-compatible NVIDIA driver, CUDA Toolkit, and NVIDIA Container Toolkit versions for Docker/local-Docker and Kubernetes GPU worker hosts. TAO-wide defaults can be overridden by the selected model's runtime profile. The `--check-only` path works on any Linux distribution; `--install` automates debian-family (Ubuntu/Debian/Pop!_OS/Mint/Zorin/Raspbian), rhel-family (Fedora/RHEL/Rocky/AlmaLinux), and suse-family (openSUSE/SLES) hosts, and prints actionable manual-install steps for everything else. Use when the user asks to "set up an NVIDIA GPU host", "check TAO Docker GPU runtime", or prepare a Kubernetes GPU worker for TAO.

PointPillars for 3D object detection from LiDAR point clouds. Encodes point clouds into a pseudo-image via a pillar-based representation, then applies 2D detection — used in autonomous driving and robotics. Use when training, evaluating, exporting, pruning, retraining, or running inference for a TAO PointPillars model. Trigger phrases include "train PointPillars", "LiDAR 3D detection", "point-cloud object detection", "pillar-based 3D detector".

Run `tao-daft validate` to check NVIDIA TAO DAFT datasets for structure, schema, and cross-reference errors. Do not use for non-DAFT formats. Use when the user asks to validate a DAFT dataset, check DAFT schema, validate a TAO dataset format, or run `tao-daft validate`.

Iteratively optimize cuTile kernel performance through systematic profiling, bottleneck analysis, IR comparison, and targeted tuning. Covers tile sizes, occupancy, autotune configs, TMA, latency hints, persistent scheduling, num_ctas, flush_to_zero, and IR-level debugging. Use when asked to "optimize cutile kernel", "improve kernel perf", "tune cutile performance", "make kernel faster", or iteratively benchmark and refine a cuTile GPU kernel in the TileGym project.

Shared Cosmos3 frontend that explicitly routes Cosmos Framework and Cosmos-RL, validates runtime model/video-dataset/SLURM inputs, consumes an SQSH or packaged backend image, optionally plans explicit clean source builds, prepares checkpoints, validates the first update in-process, and returns token-weighted losses and task-aware accuracy.

Run the full DEFT AOI improvement loop for NVIDIA TAO VisualChangeNet / ChangeNet PCB inspection models: baseline evaluate, RCA, Cosmos AnomalyGen / AMP synthetic defects, k-NN mining, retraining, and deployment gating against a customer-defined primary metric and optional constraints. Use only when the request identifies an AOI / automated-optical-inspection, PCB-defect, VisualChangeNet, or ChangeNet workflow. Supports air-gapped/offline runs with pre-staged assets. Never infer AOI from generic iterative-improvement language. Do not use for CLIP / SigLIP image retrieval, attribute-labelled image data, standalone TAO training, one-off inference, generic anomaly generation, or RCA-only analysis.

Standard single-step train/eval/export workflow for any TAO model. Use when training a TAO model on a dataset without iterative data augmentation, AutoML, or DEFT loops. Trigger phrases include "single train run", "train then evaluate then export", "plain TAO training", "normal training", "no AutoML", "skip the loop". Routes through the per-model SKILL.md for action specifics and through `tao-launch-workflow` for platform/credentials/dataset intake.

BEVFusion for multi-sensor 3D object detection. Fuses LiDAR point clouds and camera images in bird's-eye-view (BEV) space, used in autonomous driving for robust 3D perception. Use when training, evaluating, or running inference for a TAO BEVFusion model. Trigger phrases include "train BEVFusion", "LiDAR + camera fusion", "BEV 3D detection", "multi-sensor 3D perception".

NVIDIA DeepStream SDK development with Python pyservicemaker API. Use when building video analytics pipelines, GStreamer-based video processing, TensorRT inference integration, object detection/tracking, or Kafka/message broker integration.

Use when the user wants to create a dataset, generate synthetic data, or build a data generation pipeline.

Validate and use CUDA graph capture in Megatron Bridge, including local full-iteration graphs and Transformer Engine scoped graphs for attention, MLP, and MoE modules.

Documentation conventions for NeMo-RL. Covers docs/index.md updates and docstring format. Do NOT use for: bug fixes, test fixes, dependency bumps, refactoring, CI/CD changes, performance tuning, or any task that does not involve writing or updating documentation.

Use when planning, debugging, tuning, evaluating, exporting, or deploying public Nemotron `embed`/`rerank` retrieval recipes.

Stage 3 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Score a NeMo manifest, produce the five-section KER leaderboard (by-ipa_source diagnostic). Not for ASR auth (/riva-asr).

Stage 1 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when bootstrapping a cycle: NVCF+MW disclosure, NVIDIA_API_KEY check, deps install, TTS+ASR smoke test.

Select, validate, patch, and deploy existing NVIDIA Dynamo Kubernetes recipes. Use for model/backend/GPU/deployment-mode recipe bring-up; use router-starter for router-only mode work and troubleshoot for broken deployments.

Start or patch Dynamo router modes and run router endpoint smoke checks. Use for round-robin, KV-aware, least-loaded, or device-aware routing setup; use recipe-runner for recipe deployment and troubleshoot for failure diagnosis.