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title: "lm-from-zero: A Local-First, Reproducible Language-Model Pipeline from Tokenization to Serving"
type: software
authors:
  - name: tarpous
version: 1.0.0
date-released: 2026-08-10
license: Apache-2.0
repository-code: "https://github.com/tarpous/lm-from-zero"
url: "https://huggingface.co/tarpous/zero-125m"
abstract: >-
  A local-first language-model pipeline covering deterministic byte-level BPE,
  checked data shards, dense OLMo2, Mamba-2, masked diffusion, pretraining,
  post-training, evaluation, export, quantization, and local serving.