---
license: mit
language: [ja, en]
tags: [japanese, reading-comprehension, annotation, furigana, grammar, from-scratch]
---
# Kanjiland — Annotation model (Ja→full format)

A from-scratch 52.3M Transformer that maps raw Japanese to the **full Kanjiland
reading-comprehension format** — segmentation, furigana, glosses, word groupings,
translation, and grammar labels (⟨T⟩/⟨W⟩/⟨S⟩/⟨G⟩), with **no MeCab at inference**
(it learned segmentation itself). Part of
[**Kanjiland**](https://github.com/jakequist/kanjiland).

- **Training:** 6,445 teacher-supervised silver annotations (the M7 dataset).
- **Format-validity eval:** parse-rate **77%**, fully-valid (linter) **38%**.
- **On-device:** runs on CPU at 521 tok/s; int8 is 2.4× smaller.

## ⚠ Numeric fragility
Generation **must** run under bf16 autocast (cpu + cuda). In fp32 the long
autoregressive decode diverges to 0% parseable output. The loader handles this.

## Use
```bash
git clone https://github.com/jakequist/kanjiland && cd kanjiland
uv run python scripts/annotate.py --config config.yaml --checkpoint model.pt \
    --text "彼は古い寺を訪れた。" --device cpu
```

## License & limitations
Weights: **MIT**. This is an **early de-risk baseline** trained on only 6.8k
examples — valid *structure*, rough *content* (glosses/translations loop). Improve
via more silver data + constrained decoding, not architecture. Grammar inventory:
[docs/GRAMMAR_RULES.md](https://github.com/jakequist/kanjiland/blob/main/docs/GRAMMAR_RULES.md).