Manacá-1B: An Open, Reproducible Brazilian-Portuguese Language Model and a Tokenizer-Aware, Paired Evaluation
Brazilian Portuguese remains under-served by open language models, and the few that exist are difficult to reproduce and are often compared without measures of uncertainty. We release Manacá-1B, an open decoder-only model of 1.72 billion parameters trained from scratch for Brazilian Portuguese with a fully containerized, reproducible pipeline. The pretraining is stable, with zero skipped or NaN steps and self-recovering loss spikes, and we release its full log and dynamics. We evaluate the model against nine open baselines on four Portuguese benchmarks under a single harness. Every comparison reports a standard error and a paired significance test, and the harness is validated against pre...
| Authors | Bruno Leonardo Santos Menezes, Carlos Leonardo Souza Cardoso, Fabio Andre Machado Porto |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 31 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 31 August 2026 |
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