---
license: mit
language:
  - bal
tags:
  - dependency-parsing
  - pos-tagging
  - biaffine
  - pytorch
  - balochi
pipeline_tag: text-classification
model_type: biaffine-dependency-parser
---

# Balochi Dependency Parser 🇧🇦

A from-scratch **biaffine dependency parser** for the Balochi language — an
Iranian language spoken by ~8 million people. Word-level and character-level
representations are learned jointly from a 27,000+ sentence treebank — **no
pretrained embeddings, no transfer learning** — with joint **POS tagging +
dependency parsing**, **MST decoding**, and an **honest, calibrated confidence**
system.

This repo hosts the model weights in **safetensors** format (no pickle —
safe to load anywhere). The companion `config.json` + `vocab.json` let you
rebuild the exact architecture, and `calibration.json` provides the
Platt-scaled confidence coefficients.

## Model details

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Architecture | Biaffine parser (Dozat & Manning 2017), from scratch |
| Encoder | 4-layer BiLSTM (hidden 300) over word (150-d) + char (64-d) embeddings |
| Vocab | 160,875 word types / 268 chars |
| Decoding | Chu-Liu-Edmonds MST with UD single-root constraint |
| Extras | 12-rule UD constraint layer, rule-based morphology, enhanced DEPS |
| Parameters | 33,811,073 (56 tensors) |

### Accuracy (official test split, 2,788 sentences)

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| UAS | **94.31%** |
| LAS | **91.98%** (with UD constraints) |
| POS accuracy | **98.20%** |

Confidence calibration: ECE 0.135 → 0.011 on test (Platt scaling). At a
calibrated gate of ≥ 0.95, 99.74% of emitted parses are exact.

> The treebank and model use **Perso-Arabic script** — Latin-script Balochi
> is not supported.

## Usage

This is a **custom architecture**, not a `transformers` model — there is no
`AutoModel`. Load it with the project's own loader
(`balochi_parser.checkpoint.load_checkpoint_safetensors`), which reads
`model.safetensors` + `config.json` + `vocab.json` from this repo.

### 1. Clone the source repo and install

```bash
git clone <your-balochi-parser-repo-url> balochi-parser
cd balochi-parser/backend
pip install -e ".[dev,serving]"
pip install safetensors
```

### 2. Download the weights from this repo

```bash
cd balochi-parser/backend
# put the 4 files into a folder, e.g. hf_export/
# (or use huggingface_hub: huggingface-cli download <owner>/balochi-parser --local-dir new_model)
```

### 3. Load and parse

```python
import torch
from balochi_parser.checkpoint import load_checkpoint_safetensors
from balochi_parser.predict import parse_sentence
from balochi_parser.tokenizer import pretokenize

model, vocab, config, _ = load_checkpoint_safetensors("new_model")
model.eval()

tokens = pretokenize("ائی مرد بازارءَ شت", vocab["word2idx"])
rows = parse_sentence(model, vocab, tokens, torch.device("cpu"))
for row in rows:
    print(f"{row['id']}\t{row['form']}\t{row['upos']}\t{row['head']}\t{row['deprel']}")
```

Output (CoNLL-U-style):

```
1	ائی	PRON	5	nsubj
2	مرد	NOUN	5	obj
3	بازار	NOUN	5	obl
4	ءَ	ADP	3	case
5	شت	VERB	0	root
```

Each token row also carries `lemma`, `feats`, `deps`, `misc`, and a per-token
confidence `conf` (P(arc) × P(label)). `calibration.json` sits next to the
weights, so confidence calibration is applied automatically.

### CLI (from the source repo)

```bash
cd backend
python -m balochi_parser.predict --ckpt new_model/model.safetensors \
    --text "ائی مرد بازارءَ شت" --show_conf
```

### Expand the vocabulary without retraining

Dialect words absent from training get their own embedding at load time
(vocab grows, existing embeddings stay bit-for-bit). Works on the
safetensors export too:

```python
model, vocab, config, _ = load_checkpoint_safetensors(
    "new_model", extra_vocab="data/external_text/vocab_makrani.txt"
)
# or through the shared loader (accepts the file or the directory):
#   load_checkpoint("new_model/model.safetensors", extra_vocab="my_words.txt")
```

```bash
# CLI — the --ckpt flag accepts the .safetensors file directly:
python -m balochi_parser.predict --ckpt new_model/model.safetensors \
    --extra_vocab my_words.txt --text "تو کُجئیگ ئے" --show_conf
```

## Files

| File | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `model.safetensors` | Model weights (56 tensors, 135 MB) |
| `config.json` | Architecture config + vocab sizes |
| `vocab.json` | `word2idx` / `char2idx` / `upos2idx` / `deprel2idx` |
| `calibration.json` | Platt-scaling coefficients (confidence calibration) |
| `README.md` | This file |

## Why safetensors?

The original checkpoint (`new_model/best_model.pt`) is a `torch.save`
pickle. `model.safetensors` is the same weights in a pickle-free, size-safe
format — the exact export is verified bit-for-bit identical
(`scripts/export_safetensors.py --verify`).

## Training data & citation

- **Treebank**: 27,824 gold sentences (22,250 train / 2,786 dev / 2,788 test),
  augmented to 91,170 for training (gold + pseudo-labeled + BNER).
- **Sources**: Balochi Academy texts (novels, folktales, proverbs, poetry,
  articles) + public Southern/Makrani sources, incl. 17,854 validated Makrani
  sentences and a 22,559-word Makrani wordlist.

If you use this model in research, please cite:

```bibtex
@software{balochi_parser2026,
  title={Balochi Dependency Parser},
  year={2026},
  description={A from-scratch biaffine dependency parser for Balochi},
}
```

## License

MIT — see the source repo's `LICENSE`.

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