# Homebrewed SLMs: Autoregressive and Masked Diffusion Language Models Built at Home for Portuguese

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40533
Published: 2026-10-29
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> Building a language model of one's own no longer requires a data centre. This tutorial trains one from scratch, tokenizer included, on one consumer GPU,

## Review question

Match hardware, precision, sequence length, concurrency and output quality. Report p50/p95 latency and total accepted-task cost, not only a peak throughput number.

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