Text Generation
fastText
Ndonga
wikilangs
nlp
tokenizer
embeddings
n-gram
markov
wikipedia
feature-extraction
sentence-similarity
tokenization
n-grams
markov-chain
text-mining
babelvec
vocabulous
vocabulary
monolingual
family-bantu_central
Instructions to use wikilangs/ng with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- fastText
How to use wikilangs/ng with fastText:
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download import fasttext model = fasttext.load_model(hf_hub_download("wikilangs/ng", "model.bin")) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
| language: ng | |
| language_name: Ndonga | |
| language_family: bantu_central | |
| tags: | |
| - wikilangs | |
| - nlp | |
| - tokenizer | |
| - embeddings | |
| - n-gram | |
| - markov | |
| - wikipedia | |
| - feature-extraction | |
| - sentence-similarity | |
| - tokenization | |
| - n-grams | |
| - markov-chain | |
| - text-mining | |
| - fasttext | |
| - babelvec | |
| - vocabulous | |
| - vocabulary | |
| - monolingual | |
| - family-bantu_central | |
| license: mit | |
| library_name: wikilangs | |
| pipeline_tag: text-generation | |
| datasets: | |
| - omarkamali/wikipedia-monthly | |
| dataset_info: | |
| name: wikipedia-monthly | |
| description: Monthly snapshots of Wikipedia articles across 300+ languages | |
| metrics: | |
| - name: best_compression_ratio | |
| type: compression | |
| value: 2.981 | |
| - name: best_isotropy | |
| type: isotropy | |
| value: 0.0034 | |
| - name: vocabulary_size | |
| type: vocab | |
| value: 0 | |
| generated: 2026-01-10 | |
| # Ndonga - Wikilangs Models | |
| ## Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study | |
| This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on **Ndonga** Wikipedia data. | |
| We analyze tokenizers, n-gram models, Markov chains, vocabulary statistics, and word embeddings. | |
| ## 📋 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 | |
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| ### Analysis and Evaluation | |
| - [1. Tokenizer Evaluation](#1-tokenizer-evaluation) | |
| - [2. N-gram Model Evaluation](#2-n-gram-model-evaluation) | |
| - [3. Markov Chain Evaluation](#3-markov-chain-evaluation) | |
| - [4. Vocabulary Analysis](#4-vocabulary-analysis) | |
| - [5. Word Embeddings Evaluation](#5-word-embeddings-evaluation) | |
| - [6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental)](#6--morphological-analysis-experimental) | |
| - [7. Summary & Recommendations](#7-summary--recommendations) | |
| - [Metrics Glossary](#appendix-metrics-glossary--interpretation-guide) | |
| - [Visualizations Index](#visualizations-index) | |
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| ## 1. Tokenizer Evaluation | |
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| ### Results | |
| | Vocab Size | Compression | Avg Token Len | UNK Rate | Total Tokens | | |
| |------------|-------------|---------------|----------|--------------| | |
| | **8k** | 2.981x 🏆 | 2.98 | 1.0627% | 13,080 | | |
| ### Tokenization Examples | |
| Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size: | |
| ### Key Findings | |
| - **Best Compression:** 8k achieves 2.981x compression | |
| - **Lowest UNK Rate:** 8k with 1.0627% unknown tokens | |
| - **Trade-off:** Larger vocabularies improve compression but increase model size | |
| - **Recommendation:** 32k vocabulary provides optimal balance for production use | |
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| ## 2. N-gram Model Evaluation | |
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| ### Results | |
| | N-gram | Variant | Perplexity | Entropy | Unique N-grams | Top-100 Coverage | Top-1000 Coverage | | |
| |--------|---------|------------|---------|----------------|------------------|-------------------| | |
| | **2-gram** | Word | 17 | 4.12 | 22 | 100.0% | 100.0% | | |
| | **2-gram** | Subword | 286 | 8.16 | 589 | 60.1% | 100.0% | | |
| | **3-gram** | Word | 13 | 3.74 | 23 | 100.0% | 100.0% | | |
| | **3-gram** | Subword | 1,258 | 10.30 | 2,328 | 29.4% | 80.5% | | |
| | **4-gram** | Word | 16 | 4.02 | 29 | 100.0% | 100.0% | | |
| | **4-gram** | Subword | 2,459 | 11.26 | 4,677 | 22.5% | 61.8% | | |
| | **5-gram** | Word | 9 🏆 | 3.17 | 15 | 100.0% | 100.0% | | |
| | **5-gram** | Subword | 2,457 | 11.26 | 4,586 | 24.2% | 59.4% | | |
| ### Top 5 N-grams by Size | |
| **2-grams (Word):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
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| | 1 | `nowy dwór` | 35 | | |
| | 2 | `dwór królewski` | 35 | | |
| | 3 | `na uuthemba` | 31 | | |
| | 4 | `omuntu kehe` | 29 | | |
| | 5 | `oku na` | 29 | | |
| **3-grams (Word):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `nowy dwór królewski` | 35 | | |
| | 2 | `omuntu kehe oku` | 27 | | |
| | 3 | `kehe oku na` | 27 | | |
| | 4 | `oku na uuthemba` | 26 | | |
| | 5 | `zh min nan` | 12 | | |
| **4-grams (Word):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `omuntu kehe oku na` | 27 | | |
| | 2 | `kehe oku na uuthemba` | 24 | | |
| | 3 | `nekofungama ar sefala angubo` | 3 | | |
| | 4 | `harranga nekofungama ar sefala` | 3 | | |
| | 5 | `ast harranga nekofungama ar` | 3 | | |
| **5-grams (Word):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `omuntu kehe oku na uuthemba` | 24 | | |
| | 2 | `harranga nekofungama ar sefala angubo` | 3 | | |
| | 3 | `ast harranga nekofungama ar sefala` | 3 | | |
| | 4 | `nekofungama ar sefala angubo andusat` | 3 | | |
| | 5 | `kape na nando omuntu e` | 3 | | |
| **2-grams (Subword):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `a _` | 1,406 | | |
| | 2 | `a n` | 583 | | |
| | 3 | `e _` | 427 | | |
| | 4 | `n g` | 419 | | |
| | 5 | `e n` | 411 | | |
| **3-grams (Subword):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `i a _` | 277 | | |
| | 2 | `n a _` | 275 | | |
| | 3 | `e r s` | 197 | | |
| | 4 | `e n _` | 193 | | |
| | 5 | `t e r` | 177 | | |
| **4-grams (Subword):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `e r s e` | 175 | | |
| | 2 | `t e r s` | 169 | | |
| | 3 | `r s e n` | 169 | | |
| | 4 | `e t e r` | 169 | | |
| | 5 | `u e t e` | 168 | | |
| **5-grams (Subword):** | |
| | Rank | N-gram | Count | | |
| |------|--------|-------| | |
| | 1 | `e r s e n` | 169 | | |
| | 2 | `t e r s e` | 169 | | |
| | 3 | `u e t e r` | 168 | | |
| | 4 | `e t e r s` | 168 | | |
| | 5 | `r s e n _` | 167 | | |
| ### Key Findings | |
| - **Best Perplexity:** 5-gram (word) with 9 | |
| - **Entropy Trend:** Decreases with larger n-grams (more predictable) | |
| - **Coverage:** Top-1000 patterns cover ~59% of corpus | |
| - **Recommendation:** 4-gram or 5-gram for best predictive performance | |
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| ## 3. Markov Chain Evaluation | |
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| ### Results | |
| | Context | Variant | Avg Entropy | Perplexity | Branching Factor | Unique Contexts | Predictability | | |
| |---------|---------|-------------|------------|------------------|-----------------|----------------| | |
| | **1** | Word | 0.4936 | 1.408 | 2.30 | 2,515 | 50.6% | | |
| | **1** | Subword | 0.5935 | 1.509 | 3.07 | 1,104 | 40.6% | | |
| | **2** | Word | 0.0333 | 1.023 | 1.06 | 5,756 | 96.7% | | |
| | **2** | Subword | 0.4561 | 1.372 | 2.43 | 3,389 | 54.4% | | |
| | **3** | Word | 0.0092 | 1.006 | 1.02 | 6,060 | 99.1% | | |
| | **3** | Subword | 0.4100 | 1.329 | 1.84 | 8,218 | 59.0% | | |
| | **4** | Word | 0.0036 🏆 | 1.002 | 1.01 | 6,160 | 99.6% | | |
| | **4** | Subword | 0.2372 | 1.179 | 1.40 | 15,074 | 76.3% | | |
| ### Generated Text Samples (Word-based) | |
| Below are text samples generated from each word-based Markov chain model: | |
| **Context Size 1:** | |
| 1. `uetersen nds asien li azië nn geografi sw jamhuri ya uvuneka kutya otashi gandja uuthemba wokugamenw...` | |
| 2. `wikipedia id turki sq uetersen tl turkiya crh asiya hak asasi manusia io kulturo es uetersen` | |
| 3. `na nando omuntu kehe ngoka ha baibûl hak ngùi kî pak khô haw ākia he אנגלית` | |
| **Context Size 2:** | |
| 1. `nowy dwór królewski tr nowy dwór królewski en nowy dwór królewski nn nowy dwór królewski pt nowy` | |
| 2. `dwór królewski en nowy dwór królewski nn nowy dwór królewski en nowy dwór królewski et nowy dwór` | |
| 3. `na uuthemba womuthika omwaanawa gwonkalamwenyo memanguluko iya andjagana uuna iilyo yiilongo ya uvun...` | |
| **Context Size 3:** | |
| 1. `nowy dwór królewski ff nowy dwór królewski tum nowy dwór królewski pl nowy dwór królewski de nowy dw...` | |
| 2. `kehe oku na uuthemba womuthika omwaanawa gwonkalamwenyo gwa yeleka uukolele nonkalo ombwanawa ye mwe...` | |
| 3. `omuntu kehe oku na uuthemba welandulathano iyopankalathano nolyomuuyuni moka uuthemba nemanguluko nd...` | |
| **Context Size 4:** | |
| 1. `omuntu kehe oku na uuthemba wokutota nokuninga oshilyo shehangano iyaaniilonga opo a gamene uuwanawa...` | |
| 2. `kehe oku na uuthemba womafutilo ngele okwa kulupa nenge a mona oshiponga moshilongo she nenge paigwa...` | |
| 3. `ar sefala angubo andusat ace bahsa inggréh af engels ak english als englische sprache am እንግሊዝኛ an i...` | |
| ### Generated Text Samples (Subword-based) | |
| Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model: | |
| **Context Size 1:** | |
| 1. `_inoghe_अधिकारों_sk:` | |
| 2. `a:tesen_ndulidur` | |
| 3. `entueneburs'at_b` | |
| **Context Size 2:** | |
| 1. `a_a_vica_op_an_uu` | |
| 2. `an_she:ויקיפדיה_l` | |
| 3. `e_papublisencia_k` | |
| **Context Size 3:** | |
| 1. `ia_bm:hadan_mwl:bi` | |
| 2. `na_nga_nomakwa_uvu` | |
| 3. `ersen_wu_li:una_oy` | |
| **Context Size 4:** | |
| 1. `ersen_wuukwa,_a_kut` | |
| 2. `etersen_su:wikipiki` | |
| 3. `tersele_nokoompumbi` | |
| ### Key Findings | |
| - **Best Predictability:** Context-4 (word) with 99.6% predictability | |
| - **Branching Factor:** Decreases with context size (more deterministic) | |
| - **Memory Trade-off:** Larger contexts require more storage (15,074 contexts) | |
| - **Recommendation:** Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation | |
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| ## 4. Vocabulary Analysis | |
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| ### Statistics | |
| | Metric | Value | | |
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| | Vocabulary Size | 648 | | |
| | Total Tokens | 4,436 | | |
| | Mean Frequency | 6.85 | | |
| | Median Frequency | 4 | | |
| | Frequency Std Dev | 10.46 | | |
| ### Most Common Words | |
| | Rank | Word | Frequency | | |
| |------|------|-----------| | |
| | 1 | uetersen | 168 | | |
| | 2 | wikipedia | 87 | | |
| | 3 | na | 78 | | |
| | 4 | ghana | 71 | | |
| | 5 | uuthemba | 50 | | |
| | 6 | asia | 49 | | |
| | 7 | pigazzano | 47 | | |
| | 8 | zh | 44 | | |
| | 9 | de | 42 | | |
| | 10 | kehe | 37 | | |
| ### Least Common Words (from vocabulary) | |
| | Rank | Word | Frequency | | |
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| | 1 | turecko | 2 | | |
| | 2 | τουρκία | 2 | | |
| | 3 | tuirc | 2 | | |
| | 4 | तुर्किये | 2 | | |
| | 5 | germany | 2 | | |
| | 6 | ঘানা | 2 | | |
| | 7 | thumb | 2 | | |
| | 8 | italy | 2 | | |
| | 9 | piasensa | 2 | | |
| | 10 | двор | 2 | | |
| ### Zipf's Law Analysis | |
| | Metric | Value | | |
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| | Zipf Coefficient | 0.8074 | | |
| | R² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.939699 | | |
| | Adherence Quality | **excellent** | | |
| ### Coverage Analysis | |
| | Top N Words | Coverage | | |
| |-------------|----------| | |
| | Top 100 | 49.3% | | |
| | Top 1,000 | 0.0% | | |
| | Top 5,000 | 0.0% | | |
| | Top 10,000 | 0.0% | | |
| ### Key Findings | |
| - **Zipf Compliance:** R²=0.9397 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law | |
| - **High Frequency Dominance:** Top 100 words cover 49.3% of corpus | |
| - **Long Tail:** -9,352 words needed for remaining 100.0% coverage | |
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| ## 5. Word Embeddings Evaluation | |
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| ### 5.1 Cross-Lingual Alignment | |
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| ### 5.2 Model Comparison | |
| | Model | Dimension | Isotropy | Semantic Density | Alignment R@1 | Alignment R@10 | | |
| |-------|-----------|----------|------------------|---------------|----------------| | |
| | **mono_32d** | 32 | 0.0034 🏆 | 0.0000 | N/A | N/A | | |
| | **mono_64d** | 64 | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | N/A | N/A | | |
| | **mono_128d** | 128 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | N/A | N/A | | |
| | **aligned_32d** | 32 | 0.0034 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | | |
| | **aligned_64d** | 64 | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | | |
| | **aligned_128d** | 128 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | | |
| ### Key Findings | |
| - **Best Isotropy:** mono_32d with 0.0034 (more uniform distribution) | |
| - **Semantic Density:** Average pairwise similarity of 0.0000. Lower values indicate better semantic separation. | |
| - **Alignment Quality:** Aligned models evaluated but achieved 0% recall. | |
| - **Recommendation:** 128d aligned for best cross-lingual performance | |
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| ## 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 | **1.124** | High morphological productivity | Reliable analysis | | |
| | Idiomaticity Gap | **0.683** | High formulaic/idiomatic 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 | | |
| |--------|----------| | |
| #### Productive Suffixes | |
| | Suffix | Examples | | |
| |--------|----------| | |
| | `-a` | mpoka, ehyia, kaa | | |
| ### 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. | |
| *No significant bound stems detected.* | |
| ### 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. | |
| *No significant affix co-occurrences detected.* | |
| ### 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 | | |
| |------|-----------------|------------|------| | |
| | universala | **`universal-a`** | 4.5 | `universal` | | |
| | geografia | **`geografi-a`** | 4.5 | `geografi` | | |
| | republika | **`republik-a`** | 4.5 | `republik` | | |
| | kwatelela | **`kwatelel-a`** | 1.5 | `kwatelel` | | |
| | manguluka | **`manguluk-a`** | 1.5 | `manguluk` | | |
| | wikipedya | **`wikipedy-a`** | 1.5 | `wikipedy` | | |
| | geographia | **`geographi-a`** | 1.5 | `geographi` | | |
| ### 6.6 Linguistic Interpretation | |
| > **Automated Insight:** | |
| The language Ndonga shows moderate morphological complexity. There is a balanced trade-off between whole-word memorization and subword composition. | |
| > **Note on Idiomaticity:** The high Idiomaticity Gap suggests a large number of frequent multi-word expressions or formulaic sequences that are statistically distinct from their component parts. | |
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| ## 7. Summary & Recommendations | |
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| ### Production Recommendations | |
| | Component | Recommended | Rationale | | |
| |-----------|-------------|-----------| | |
| | Tokenizer | **8k BPE** | Best compression (2.98x) | | |
| | N-gram | **5-gram** | Lowest perplexity (9) | | |
| | Markov | **Context-4** | Highest predictability (99.6%) | | |
| | Embeddings | **100d** | Balanced semantic capture and isotropy | | |
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| ## 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. | |
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| > *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. | |
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| > *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. | |
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| > *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. | |
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| > *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) × 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. | |
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| > *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. | |
| **R² (Coefficient of Determination)** | |
| > *Definition:* Measures how well the linear fit explains the frequency-rank relationship. Ranges from 0 to 1. | |
| > | |
| > *Intuition:* R² near 1.0 means the data closely follows Zipf's law; lower values indicate deviation from expected word frequency patterns. | |
| > | |
| > *What to seek:* R² > 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. | |
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| > *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 | |
| 1. **Compare within model families:** Metrics are most meaningful when comparing models of the same type (e.g., 8k vs 64k tokenizer). | |
| 2. **Consider trade-offs:** Better performance on one metric often comes at the cost of another (e.g., compression vs. OOV rate). | |
| 3. **Context matters:** Optimal values depend on downstream tasks. Text generation may prioritize different metrics than classification. | |
| 4. **Corpus influence:** All metrics are influenced by corpus characteristics. Wikipedia text differs from social media or literature. | |
| 5. **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](https://huggingface.co/datasets/omarkamali/wikipedia-monthly) - a monthly snapshot of Wikipedia articles across 300+ languages. | |
| ### Project | |
| A project by **[Wikilangs](https://wikilangs.org)** - Open-source NLP models for every Wikipedia language. | |
| ### Maintainer | |
| [Omar Kamali](https://omarkamali.com) - [Omneity Labs](https://omneitylabs.com) | |
| ### Citation | |
| If you use these models in your research, please cite: | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @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 | |
| - 🌐 Website: [wikilangs.org](https://wikilangs.org) | |
| - 🤗 Models: [huggingface.co/wikilangs](https://huggingface.co/wikilangs) | |
| - 📊 Data: [wikipedia-monthly](https://huggingface.co/datasets/omarkamali/wikipedia-monthly) | |
| - 👤 Author: [Omar Kamali](https://huggingface.co/omarkamali) | |
| - 🤝 Sponsor: [Featherless AI](https://featherless.ai) | |
| --- | |
| *Generated by Wikilangs Models Pipeline* | |
| *Report Date: 2026-01-10 14:50:35* | |