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

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2026-10-29

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The linked preprint is titled Homebrewed SLMs: Autoregressive and Masked Diffusion Language Models Built at Home for Portuguese. The screening rules associate it with compute & efficiency. This association is a topic classification, not a finding that the claims are correct.

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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,

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40533

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