Fula - Wikilangs Models
Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study
This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on Fula Wikipedia data. We analyze tokenizers, n-gram models, Markov chains, vocabulary statistics, and word embeddings.
π Repository Contents
Models & Assets
- Tokenizers (8k, 16k, 32k, 64k)
- N-gram models (2, 3, 4, 5-gram)
- Markov chains (context of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
- Subword N-gram and Markov chains
- Embeddings in various sizes and dimensions (aligned and unaligned)
- Language Vocabulary
- Language Statistics
Analysis and Evaluation
- 1. Tokenizer Evaluation
- 2. N-gram Model Evaluation
- 3. Markov Chain Evaluation
- 4. Vocabulary Analysis
- 5. Word Embeddings Evaluation
- 6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental)
- 7. Summary & Recommendations
- Metrics Glossary
- Visualizations Index
1. Tokenizer Evaluation
Results
| Vocab Size | Compression | Avg Token Len | UNK Rate | Total Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8k | 3.290x | 3.29 | 0.2095% | 458,165 |
| 16k | 3.629x | 3.63 | 0.2311% | 415,362 |
| 32k | 3.915x | 3.92 | 0.2494% | 384,993 |
| 64k | 4.156x π | 4.16 | 0.2647% | 362,620 |
Tokenization Examples
Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size:
Sample 1: Tuobo District is one of 10 districts of River Gee County, Liberia. As of the po...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βtu o bo βdistrict βis βone βof β 1 0 ... (+23 more) |
33 |
| 16k | βtu o bo βdistrict βis βone βof β 1 0 ... (+21 more) |
31 |
| 32k | βtu o bo βdistrict βis βone βof β 1 0 ... (+21 more) |
31 |
| 64k | βtu obo βdistrict βis βone βof β 1 0 βdistricts ... (+20 more) |
30 |
Sample 2: Sapele Latake hukuma pamarun Diiwal Delta lysidi Naajeeriya
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βsa pe le βlat ake βhukuma βpamarun βdiiwal βdelta βly ... (+2 more) |
12 |
| 16k | βsa pe le βlatake βhukuma βpamarun βdiiwal βdelta βlysidi βnaajeeriya |
10 |
| 32k | βsapele βlatake βhukuma βpamarun βdiiwal βdelta βlysidi βnaajeeriya |
8 |
| 64k | βsapele βlatake βhukuma βpamarun βdiiwal βdelta βlysidi βnaajeeriya |
8 |
Sample 3: Tienie ko wuro e nder diiwaan Grand Cape Mount, to leydi Liberiya.
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βti en ie βko βwuro βe βnder βdiiwaan βgrand βcape ... (+7 more) |
17 |
| 16k | βti en ie βko βwuro βe βnder βdiiwaan βgrand βcape ... (+6 more) |
16 |
| 32k | βti en ie βko βwuro βe βnder βdiiwaan βgrand βcape ... (+6 more) |
16 |
| 64k | βti enie βko βwuro βe βnder βdiiwaan βgrand βcape βmount ... (+5 more) |
15 |
Key Findings
- Best Compression: 64k achieves 4.156x compression
- Lowest UNK Rate: 8k with 0.2095% unknown tokens
- Trade-off: Larger vocabularies improve compression but increase model size
- Recommendation: 32k vocabulary provides optimal balance for production use
2. N-gram Model Evaluation
Results
| N-gram | Variant | Perplexity | Entropy | Unique N-grams | Top-100 Coverage | Top-1000 Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-gram | Word | 18,162 | 14.15 | 104,236 | 16.2% | 37.3% |
| 2-gram | Subword | 296 π | 8.21 | 7,815 | 65.5% | 98.4% |
| 3-gram | Word | 53,854 | 15.72 | 187,942 | 10.0% | 24.1% |
| 3-gram | Subword | 2,479 | 11.28 | 53,321 | 26.0% | 70.2% |
| 4-gram | Word | 183,838 | 17.49 | 408,955 | 5.3% | 14.1% |
| 4-gram | Subword | 13,282 | 13.70 | 265,846 | 13.1% | 40.8% |
| 5-gram | Word | 193,974 | 17.57 | 342,827 | 4.9% | 12.3% |
| 5-gram | Subword | 45,941 | 15.49 | 723,015 | 8.8% | 27.6% |
Top 5 N-grams by Size
2-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | e nder |
61,343 |
| 2 | e hitaande |
32,860 |
| 3 | ko e |
22,642 |
| 4 | jaaΙi haaΙtirde |
19,214 |
| 5 | duΙal jaaΙi |
17,989 |
3-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde |
17,974 |
| 2 | to duΙal jaaΙi |
10,218 |
| 3 | e hitaande o |
6,335 |
| 4 | e nder leydi |
5,945 |
| 5 | e nder diiwaan |
4,588 |
4-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | to duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde |
10,215 |
| 2 | e asli mum Γ±alnde |
3,566 |
| 3 | mw parser output reflist |
3,258 |
| 4 | ko Ιuri heewde e |
1,887 |
| 5 | gila e asli mum |
1,729 |
5-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gila e asli mum Γ±alnde |
1,726 |
| 2 | ko e asli mum Γ±alnde |
1,633 |
| 3 | mooftaa ko e asli mum |
1,472 |
| 4 | moΖ΄Ζ΄inaama gila e asli mum |
1,404 |
| 5 | mw parser output reflist lower |
1,396 |
2-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | e _ |
1,192,787 |
| 2 | o _ |
697,278 |
| 3 | a a |
631,137 |
| 4 | i _ |
590,142 |
| 5 | d e |
589,471 |
3-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ e _ |
366,386 |
| 2 | d e _ |
361,065 |
| 3 | n d e |
340,092 |
| 4 | k o _ |
191,527 |
| 5 | _ k o |
190,918 |
4-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | n d e _ |
190,566 |
| 2 | _ n d e |
151,153 |
| 3 | _ k o _ |
147,651 |
| 4 | n d e r |
106,570 |
| 5 | d e r _ |
101,274 |
5-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | n d e r _ |
100,326 |
| 2 | _ n d e r |
99,998 |
| 3 | e _ n d e |
89,458 |
| 4 | _ e _ n d |
62,590 |
| 5 | _ i n a _ |
61,992 |
Key Findings
- Best Perplexity: 2-gram (subword) with 296
- Entropy Trend: Decreases with larger n-grams (more predictable)
- Coverage: Top-1000 patterns cover ~28% of corpus
- Recommendation: 4-gram or 5-gram for best predictive performance
3. Markov Chain Evaluation
Results
| Context | Variant | Avg Entropy | Perplexity | Branching Factor | Unique Contexts | Predictability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Word | 0.8658 | 1.822 | 7.09 | 238,209 | 13.4% |
| 1 | Subword | 1.0967 | 2.139 | 6.46 | 4,268 | 0.0% |
| 2 | Word | 0.2953 | 1.227 | 1.86 | 1,682,859 | 70.5% |
| 2 | Subword | 0.7230 | 1.651 | 4.35 | 27,539 | 27.7% |
| 3 | Word | 0.1250 | 1.091 | 1.26 | 3,111,793 | 87.5% |
| 3 | Subword | 0.7226 | 1.650 | 3.82 | 119,629 | 27.7% |
| 4 | Word | 0.0559 π | 1.040 | 1.10 | 3,909,129 | 94.4% |
| 4 | Subword | 0.6523 | 1.572 | 3.00 | 457,157 | 34.8% |
Generated Text Samples (Word-based)
Below are text samples generated from each word-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
e fitinaaji gonΙi Ιer daga baro caggal wuro e ganndal paleontologie to tangi tehsil diiwaan lagosko adii aisha halilu akilu winndi e apc mo anndaa e dow dow huutoreeji e ndernder cuuΙi 3 nde peeΓ±ii e doggol laawΙungol 1 mm 0 m abu muhammadu faade e
Context Size 2:
e nder eΙΙoore jaΕde coodguuli o siftorii e hitaande opitaal oo ina rokka kadi batte e peewnugole hitaande nde martin timmini mbaydi ndii ΙuuΙal ngal heewaani ina maantiniree aksan grave yeru helm...ko e jannginde sosiyoloji 18 4 158 168 issn s2cid politik e jamaanu koloΓ±aal ko adii hitaande
Context Size 3:
duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde makerere mooftaa ko e asli mum Γ±alnde 13 lewru abriil o arti e galle makkoto duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde wharton to duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde madrasa islamia buxi bazar to leydi kuttak...e hitaande o joofni e 7 056 woote afolami suΙiima heddaade e celibateer e nder tikkere e ko
Context Size 4:
to duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde williams college e hitaande o heΙi ba e jaΕde Ζ΄ellitaare kuuΙtidinnde e jaΕ...e asli mum Γ±alnde keΙtinaa ko jaaynde duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde columbia to duΙal jaaΙi haaΙtirde bagdaa...mw parser output reflist reflist columns ol margin top 0 mw parser output reflist lower greek list s...
Generated Text Samples (Subword-based)
Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
_mpabileΙe_mwor_a_lita,_ΠΎΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΠΊΠΈedimeye_fo_wi_kk
Context Size 2:
e_ng_"gelloyΙe_e_o_wuuΙΙe_Ιaaweddiaayya._dogina_mu_
Context Size 3:
_e_kosa_tuugii_haade_17_famΙam_huun,nde_8_oktooΙe_ype:
Context Size 4:
nde_dingirde_batte__nde_23_lewru_ut_ha_ko_Γ±awΙe_22_mars_k
Key Findings
- Best Predictability: Context-4 (word) with 94.4% predictability
- Branching Factor: Decreases with context size (more deterministic)
- Memory Trade-off: Larger contexts require more storage (457,157 contexts)
- Recommendation: Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation
4. Vocabulary Analysis
Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Vocabulary Size | 109,082 |
| Total Tokens | 4,968,136 |
| Mean Frequency | 45.54 |
| Median Frequency | 4 |
| Frequency Std Dev | 1398.20 |
Most Common Words
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | e | 374,881 |
| 2 | ko | 151,825 |
| 3 | nder | 99,826 |
| 4 | o | 93,579 |
| 5 | to | 65,456 |
| 6 | ina | 62,692 |
| 7 | hitaande | 48,933 |
| 8 | ngam | 37,608 |
| 9 | leydi | 35,673 |
| 10 | nde | 31,552 |
Least Common Words (from vocabulary)
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | delee | 2 |
| 2 | trokanter | 2 |
| 3 | casteeji | 2 |
| 4 | hoffa | 2 |
| 5 | hallux | 2 |
| 6 | falannde | 2 |
| 7 | calthorpe | 2 |
| 8 | stopes | 2 |
| 9 | trokleer | 2 |
| 10 | mortons | 2 |
Zipf's Law Analysis
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Zipf Coefficient | 1.1660 |
| RΒ² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.992989 |
| Adherence Quality | excellent |
Coverage Analysis
| Top N Words | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 39.8% |
| Top 1,000 | 67.8% |
| Top 5,000 | 83.4% |
| Top 10,000 | 88.4% |
Key Findings
- Zipf Compliance: RΒ²=0.9930 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law
- High Frequency Dominance: Top 100 words cover 39.8% of corpus
- Long Tail: 99,082 words needed for remaining 11.6% coverage
5. Word Embeddings Evaluation
5.1 Cross-Lingual Alignment
5.2 Model Comparison
| Model | Dimension | Isotropy | Semantic Density | Alignment R@1 | Alignment R@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mono_32d | 32 | 0.8735 | 0.3675 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_64d | 64 | 0.8804 π | 0.2760 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_128d | 128 | 0.8690 | 0.2101 | N/A | N/A |
| aligned_32d | 32 | 0.8735 | 0.3540 | 0.1020 | 0.3900 |
| aligned_64d | 64 | 0.8804 | 0.2806 | 0.1860 | 0.5660 |
| aligned_128d | 128 | 0.8690 | 0.2018 | 0.2480 | 0.6620 |
Key Findings
- Best Isotropy: mono_64d with 0.8804 (more uniform distribution)
- Semantic Density: Average pairwise similarity of 0.2817. Lower values indicate better semantic separation.
- Alignment Quality: Aligned models achieve up to 24.8% R@1 in cross-lingual retrieval.
- Recommendation: 128d aligned for best cross-lingual performance
6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental)
This section presents an automated morphological analysis derived from the statistical divergence between word-level and subword-level models. By analyzing where subword predictability spikes and where word-level coverage fails, we can infer linguistic structures without supervised data.
6.1 Productivity & Complexity
| Metric | Value | Interpretation | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity Index | 5.000 | High morphological productivity | Reliable analysis |
| Idiomaticity Gap | -0.556 | Low formulaic content | - |
6.2 Affix Inventory (Productive Units)
These are the most productive prefixes and suffixes identified by sampling the vocabulary for global substitutability patterns. A unit is considered an affix if stripping it leaves a valid stem that appears in other contexts.
Productive Prefixes
| Prefix | Examples |
|---|---|
-ma |
mallihemre, madaaw, mariam |
Productive Suffixes
| Suffix | Examples |
|---|---|
-e |
mallihemre, olive, 9ice |
-ji |
notifikaaji, cedeeji, reenngooji |
-de |
koΙorde, wiyde, nuunΙude |
6.3 Bound Stems (Lexical Roots)
Bound stems are high-frequency subword units that are semantically cohesive but rarely appear as standalone words. These often correspond to the 'core' of a word that requires inflection or derivation to be valid.
| Stem | Cohesion | Substitutability | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
anng |
1.65x | 80 contexts | anngu, manngu, mannga |
annd |
1.37x | 157 contexts | annde, anndi, annda |
innd |
1.61x | 67 contexts | inndo, innde, inndi |
ooji |
1.58x | 72 contexts | sooji, jooji, booji |
ande |
1.39x | 126 contexts | Ιande, andes, wande |
riya |
1.51x | 75 contexts | riyaz, oriya, uriya |
nnde |
1.48x | 76 contexts | annde, innde, wonnde |
goll |
1.88x | 27 contexts | gollo, gollu, golla |
hita |
1.91x | 21 contexts | chita, shita, ichita |
itaa |
1.40x | 62 contexts | kitaa, gitaar, kitaab |
aand |
1.30x | 65 contexts | aande, aandi, naande |
lnde |
1.58x | 25 contexts | nalnde, jolnde, falnde |
6.4 Affix Compatibility (Co-occurrence)
This table shows which prefixes and suffixes most frequently co-occur on the same stems, revealing the 'stacking' rules of the language's morphology.
| Prefix | Suffix | Frequency | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
-ma |
-e |
24 words | marylise, mahde |
-ma |
-de |
7 words | mahde, mahaande |
-ma |
-ji |
3 words | mabboji, mahngooji |
6.5 Recursive Morpheme Segmentation
Using Recursive Hierarchical Substitutability, we decompose complex words into their constituent morphemes. This approach handles nested affixes (e.g., prefix-prefix-root-suffix).
| Word | Suggested Split | Confidence | Stem |
|---|---|---|---|
| jottoriide | jottorii-de |
4.5 | jottorii |
| afrikaaji | afrikaa-ji |
4.5 | afrikaa |
| hawtaagoji | hawtaago-ji |
4.5 | hawtaago |
| jaaynooji | jaaynoo-ji |
4.5 | jaaynoo |
| ajiboyede | ajiboye-de |
4.5 | ajiboye |
| sungullaji | sungulla-ji |
4.5 | sungulla |
| maagiyaΕkooji | ma-agiyaΕkoo-ji |
3.0 | agiyaΕkoo |
| matsumoridate | ma-tsumoridate |
1.5 | tsumoridate |
| makambako | ma-kambako |
1.5 | kambako |
| temperaaji | temperaa-ji |
1.5 | temperaa |
| telefoΕaaji | telefoΕaa-ji |
1.5 | telefoΕaa |
| hangaruuji | hangaruu-ji |
1.5 | hangaruu |
| mangeshkar | ma-ngeshkar |
1.5 | ngeshkar |
| maldivian | ma-ldivian |
1.5 | ldivian |
| datadowlaaji | datadowlaa-ji |
1.5 | datadowlaa |
6.6 Linguistic Interpretation
Automated Insight: The language Fula shows high morphological productivity. The subword models are significantly more efficient than word models, suggesting a rich system of affixation or compounding.
7. Summary & Recommendations
Production Recommendations
| Component | Recommended | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Tokenizer | 64k BPE | Best compression (4.16x) |
| N-gram | 2-gram | Lowest perplexity (296) |
| Markov | Context-4 | Highest predictability (94.4%) |
| Embeddings | 100d | Balanced semantic capture and isotropy |
Appendix: Metrics Glossary & Interpretation Guide
This section provides definitions, intuitions, and guidance for interpreting the metrics used throughout this report.
Tokenizer Metrics
Compression Ratio
Definition: The ratio of characters to tokens (chars/token). Measures how efficiently the tokenizer represents text.
Intuition: Higher compression means fewer tokens needed to represent the same text, reducing sequence lengths for downstream models. A 3x compression means ~3 characters per token on average.
What to seek: Higher is generally better for efficiency, but extremely high compression may indicate overly aggressive merging that loses morphological information.
Average Token Length (Fertility)
Definition: Mean number of characters per token produced by the tokenizer.
Intuition: Reflects the granularity of tokenization. Longer tokens capture more context but may struggle with rare words; shorter tokens are more flexible but increase sequence length.
What to seek: Balance between 2-5 characters for most languages. Arabic/morphologically-rich languages may benefit from slightly longer tokens.
Unknown Token Rate (OOV Rate)
Definition: Percentage of tokens that map to the unknown/UNK token, indicating words the tokenizer cannot represent.
Intuition: Lower OOV means better vocabulary coverage. High OOV indicates the tokenizer encounters many unseen character sequences.
What to seek: Below 1% is excellent; below 5% is acceptable. BPE tokenizers typically achieve very low OOV due to subword fallback.
N-gram Model Metrics
Perplexity
Definition: Measures how "surprised" the model is by test data. Mathematically: 2^(cross-entropy). Lower values indicate better prediction.
Intuition: If perplexity is 100, the model is as uncertain as if choosing uniformly among 100 options at each step. A perplexity of 10 means effectively choosing among 10 equally likely options.
What to seek: Lower is better. Perplexity decreases with larger n-grams (more context). Values vary widely by language and corpus size.
Entropy
Definition: Average information content (in bits) needed to encode the next token given the context. Related to perplexity: perplexity = 2^entropy.
Intuition: High entropy means high uncertainty/randomness; low entropy means predictable patterns. Natural language typically has entropy between 1-4 bits per character.
What to seek: Lower entropy indicates more predictable text patterns. Entropy should decrease as n-gram size increases.
Coverage (Top-K)
Definition: Percentage of corpus occurrences explained by the top K most frequent n-grams.
Intuition: High coverage with few patterns indicates repetitive/formulaic text; low coverage suggests diverse vocabulary usage.
What to seek: Depends on use case. For language modeling, moderate coverage (40-60% with top-1000) is typical for natural text.
Markov Chain Metrics
Average Entropy
Definition: Mean entropy across all contexts, measuring average uncertainty in next-word prediction.
Intuition: Lower entropy means the model is more confident about what comes next. Context-1 has high entropy (many possible next words); Context-4 has low entropy (few likely continuations).
What to seek: Decreasing entropy with larger context sizes. Very low entropy (<0.1) indicates highly deterministic transitions.
Branching Factor
Definition: Average number of unique next tokens observed for each context.
Intuition: High branching = many possible continuations (flexible but uncertain); low branching = few options (predictable but potentially repetitive).
What to seek: Branching factor should decrease with context size. Values near 1.0 indicate nearly deterministic chains.
Predictability
Definition: Derived metric: (1 - normalized_entropy) Γ 100%. Indicates how deterministic the model's predictions are.
Intuition: 100% predictability means the next word is always certain; 0% means completely random. Real text falls between these extremes.
What to seek: Higher predictability for text generation quality, but too high (>98%) may produce repetitive output.
Vocabulary & Zipf's Law Metrics
Zipf's Coefficient
Definition: The slope of the log-log plot of word frequency vs. rank. Zipf's law predicts this should be approximately -1.
Intuition: A coefficient near -1 indicates the corpus follows natural language patterns where a few words are very common and most words are rare.
What to seek: Values between -0.8 and -1.2 indicate healthy natural language distribution. Deviations may suggest domain-specific or artificial text.
RΒ² (Coefficient of Determination)
Definition: Measures how well the linear fit explains the frequency-rank relationship. Ranges from 0 to 1.
Intuition: RΒ² near 1.0 means the data closely follows Zipf's law; lower values indicate deviation from expected word frequency patterns.
What to seek: RΒ² > 0.95 is excellent; > 0.99 indicates near-perfect Zipf adherence typical of large natural corpora.
Vocabulary Coverage
Definition: Cumulative percentage of corpus tokens accounted for by the top N words.
Intuition: Shows how concentrated word usage is. If top-100 words cover 50% of text, the corpus relies heavily on common words.
What to seek: Top-100 covering 30-50% is typical. Higher coverage indicates more repetitive text; lower suggests richer vocabulary.
Word Embedding Metrics
Isotropy
Definition: Measures how uniformly distributed vectors are in the embedding space. Computed as the ratio of minimum to maximum singular values.
Intuition: High isotropy (near 1.0) means vectors spread evenly in all directions; low isotropy means vectors cluster in certain directions, reducing expressiveness.
What to seek: Higher isotropy generally indicates better-quality embeddings. Values > 0.1 are reasonable; > 0.3 is good. Lower-dimensional embeddings tend to have higher isotropy.
Average Norm
Definition: Mean magnitude (L2 norm) of word vectors in the embedding space.
Intuition: Indicates the typical "length" of vectors. Consistent norms suggest stable training; high variance may indicate some words are undertrained.
What to seek: Relatively consistent norms across models. The absolute value matters less than consistency (low std deviation).
Cosine Similarity
Definition: Measures angular similarity between vectors, ranging from -1 (opposite) to 1 (identical direction).
Intuition: Words with similar meanings should have high cosine similarity. This is the standard metric for semantic relatedness in embeddings.
What to seek: Semantically related words should score > 0.5; unrelated words should be near 0. Synonyms often score > 0.7.
t-SNE Visualization
Definition: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding - a dimensionality reduction technique that preserves local structure for visualization.
Intuition: Clusters in t-SNE plots indicate groups of semantically related words. Spread indicates vocabulary diversity; tight clusters suggest semantic coherence.
What to seek: Meaningful clusters (e.g., numbers together, verbs together). Avoid over-interpreting distances - t-SNE preserves local, not global, structure.
General Interpretation Guidelines
- Compare within model families: Metrics are most meaningful when comparing models of the same type (e.g., 8k vs 64k tokenizer).
- Consider trade-offs: Better performance on one metric often comes at the cost of another (e.g., compression vs. OOV rate).
- Context matters: Optimal values depend on downstream tasks. Text generation may prioritize different metrics than classification.
- Corpus influence: All metrics are influenced by corpus characteristics. Wikipedia text differs from social media or literature.
- Language-specific patterns: Morphologically rich languages (like Arabic) may show different optimal ranges than analytic languages.
Visualizations Index
| Visualization | Description |
|---|---|
| Tokenizer Compression | Compression ratios by vocabulary size |
| Tokenizer Fertility | Average token length by vocabulary |
| Tokenizer OOV | Unknown token rates |
| Tokenizer Total Tokens | Total tokens by vocabulary |
| N-gram Perplexity | Perplexity by n-gram size |
| N-gram Entropy | Entropy by n-gram size |
| N-gram Coverage | Top pattern coverage |
| N-gram Unique | Unique n-gram counts |
| Markov Entropy | Entropy by context size |
| Markov Branching | Branching factor by context |
| Markov Contexts | Unique context counts |
| Zipf's Law | Frequency-rank distribution with fit |
| Vocab Frequency | Word frequency distribution |
| Top 20 Words | Most frequent words |
| Vocab Coverage | Cumulative coverage curve |
| Embedding Isotropy | Vector space uniformity |
| Embedding Norms | Vector magnitude distribution |
| Embedding Similarity | Word similarity heatmap |
| Nearest Neighbors | Similar words for key terms |
| t-SNE Words | 2D word embedding visualization |
| t-SNE Sentences | 2D sentence embedding visualization |
| Position Encoding | Encoding method comparison |
| Model Sizes | Storage requirements |
| Performance Dashboard | Comprehensive performance overview |
About This Project
Data Source
Models trained on wikipedia-monthly - a monthly snapshot of Wikipedia articles across 300+ languages.
Project
A project by Wikilangs - Open-source NLP models for every Wikipedia language.
Maintainer
Citation
If you use these models in your research, please cite:
@misc{wikilangs2025,
author = {Kamali, Omar},
title = {Wikilangs: Open NLP Models for Wikipedia Languages},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18073153},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://huggingface.co/wikilangs}
institution = {Omneity Labs}
}
License
MIT License - Free for academic and commercial use.
Links
- π Website: wikilangs.org
- π€ Models: huggingface.co/wikilangs
- π Data: wikipedia-monthly
- π€ Author: Omar Kamali
- π€ Sponsor: Featherless AI
Generated by Wikilangs Models Pipeline
Report Date: 2026-01-04 15:09:43



















