Add Megatron-Bridge pruning example scripts

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 /examples/llm_qat @NVIDIA/modelopt-examples-llm_qat-codeowners
 /examples/llm_sparsity @NVIDIA/modelopt-torch-sparsity-codeowners
+/examples/megatron_bridge @NVIDIA/modelopt-examples-megatron-codeowners
 /examples/model_hub @NVIDIA/modelopt-examples-model_hub-codeowners
 /examples/nemo_run @NVIDIA/modelopt-examples-megatron-codeowners
 /examples/onnx_ptq @NVIDIA/modelopt-onnx-codeowners

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ NVIDIA Model Optimizer Changelog (Linux)
 - Add standalone type inference option (``--use_standalone_type_inference``) in ONNX AutoCast as an alternative to ONNX's ``infer_shapes``. This experimental feature performs type-only inference without shape inference, useful as a workaround when shape inference fails or to avoid unnecessary shape inference overhead.
 - Add support for Kimi K2 Thinking model quantization from the original int4 checkpoint.
 - Add support for ``params`` constraint based automatic neural architecture search in Minitron pruning (``mcore_minitron``) as an alternative to manual pruning (using ``export_config``). See `examples/pruning/README.md <https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/tree/main/examples/pruning>`_ for more details on its usage.
+- New example for Minitron pruning with Megatron-Bridge framework along with advanced pruning usage with new ``params`` constraint based pruning. Check `examples/megatron_bridge/README.md <https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/tree/main/examples/megatron_bridge>`_ for example scripts.
 
 0.41 (2026-01-19)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

README.md

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 **[Input]** Model Optimizer currently supports inputs of a [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/), [PyTorch](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch) or [ONNX](https://github.com/onnx/onnx) model.
 
 **[Optimize]** Model Optimizer provides Python APIs for users to easily compose the above model optimization techniques and export an optimized quantized checkpoint.
-Model Optimizer is also integrated with [NVIDIA NeMo](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/NeMo), [Megatron-LM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM) and [Hugging Face Accelerate](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate) for training required inference optimization techniques.
+Model Optimizer is also integrated with [NVIDIA Megatron-Bridge](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Megatron-Bridge), [Megatron-LM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM) and [Hugging Face Accelerate](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate) for training required inference optimization techniques.
 
 **[Export for deployment]** Seamlessly integrated within the NVIDIA AI software ecosystem, the quantized checkpoint generated from Model Optimizer is ready for deployment in downstream inference frameworks like [SGLang](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang), [TensorRT-LLM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/tree/main/examples/quantization), [TensorRT](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT), or [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm).
 

examples/megatron_bridge/README.md

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+# Megatron Bridge
+
+This directory contains examples of using Model Optimizer with [NeMo Megatron-Bridge](https://github.com/NVIDIA-Nemo/Megatron-Bridge) framework for pruning, distillation, quantization, etc.
+
+<div align="center">
+
+| **Section** | **Description** | **Link** | **Docs** |
+| :------------: | :------------: | :------------: | :------------: |
+| Pre-Requisites | Development environment setup | \[[Link](#pre-requisites)\] | |
+| Pruning | Examples of pruning a model using Minitron algorithm | \[[Link](#pruning)\] | |
+| Distillation | Examples of distillation a pruned or quantized model | \[[Link](#distillation)\] | |
+| Quantization | Examples of quantizing a model | \[[Link](#quantization)\] | |
+| Resources | Extra links to relevant resources | \[[Link](#resources)\] | |
+
+</div>
+
+## Pre-Requisites
+
+Running these examples requires many additional dependencies to be installed (e.g., Megatron-Bridge, Megatron-core, etc.), hence we strongly recommend directly using the NeMo container (e.g., `nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.02`) which has all the dependencies installed.
+
+To get the latest ModelOpt features and examples, you can mount your latest ModelOpt cloned repository to the container at `/opt/Model-Optimizer` or pull the latest changes once inside the docker container (`cd /opt/Model-Optimizer && git checkout main && git pull`).
+
+## Pruning
+
+This section shows how to prune a HuggingFace model using Minitron algorithm in Megatron-Bridge framework. Checkout other available pruning algorithms, supported frameworks and models, and general pruning getting-started in the [pruning README](../pruning/README.md).
+
+Example usage to prune Qwen3-8B to 6B on 2-GPUs (Pipeline Parallelism = 2) while skipping pruning of `num_attention_heads` using following defaults:
+    1024 samples from [`nemotron-post-training-dataset-v2`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Post-Training-Dataset-v2) for calibration,
+    at-most 20% depth (`num_layers`) and 40% width is pruned per prunable hparam (`hidden_size`, `ffn_hidden_size`, ...),
+    top-10 candidates are evaluated for MMLU score (5% sampled data) to select the best model.
+
+```bash
+torchrun --nproc_per_node 2 /opt/Model-Optimizer/examples/megatron_bridge/prune_minitron.py \
+    --hf_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen3-8B \
+    --prune_target_params 6e9 \
+    --hparams_to_skip num_attention_heads \
+    --output_hf_path /tmp/Qwen3-8B-Pruned-6B
+```
+
+To see the full usage for advanced configurations, run:
+
+```bash
+python /opt/Model-Optimizer/examples/megatron_bridge/prune_minitron.py --help
+```
+
+> [!TIP]
+> If number of layers in the model is not divisible by number of GPUs i.e. pipeline parallel (PP) size, you can configure
+> uneven PP by setting `--num_layers_in_first_pipeline_stage` and `--num_layers_in_last_pipeline_stage`.
+> E.g. for Qwen3-8B with 36 layers and 8 GPUs, you can set both to 3 to get 3-5-5-5-5-5-5-3 layers per GPU.
+
+## Distillation
+
+TODO
+
+## Quantization
+
+TODO
+
+## Resources
+
+- 📅 [Roadmap](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/issues/146)
+- 📖 [Documentation](https://nvidia.github.io/Model-Optimizer)
+- 💡 [Release Notes](https://nvidia.github.io/Model-Optimizer/reference/0_changelog.html)
+- 🐛 [File a bug](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/issues/new?template=1_bug_report.md)
+- ✨ [File a Feature Request](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/issues/new?template=2_feature_request.md)