Ganda - Wikilangs Models
Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study
This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on Ganda 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 | 3.693x | 3.70 | 0.2870% | 259,571 |
| 16k | 4.077x | 4.08 | 0.3168% | 235,148 |
| 32k | 4.439x | 4.44 | 0.3449% | 215,974 |
| 64k | 4.749x π | 4.75 | 0.3690% | 201,887 |
Tokenization Examples
Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size:
Sample 1: Kigulu, ekibuga mu Kira Town mu Wakiso mu Yuganda.
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βki gulu , βekibuga βmu βkira βtown βmu βwakiso βmu ... (+2 more) |
12 |
| 16k | βki gulu , βekibuga βmu βkira βtown βmu βwakiso βmu ... (+2 more) |
12 |
| 32k | βkigulu , βekibuga βmu βkira βtown βmu βwakiso βmu βyuganda ... (+1 more) |
11 |
| 64k | βkigulu , βekibuga βmu βkira βtown βmu βwakiso βmu βyuganda ... (+1 more) |
11 |
Sample 2: Kibuku nsi e disitulikit wa Yuganda. Obugazi: 490.2 kmΒ². Abantu: 181 700 mu Yuga...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βkibu ku βnsi βe βdisitulikit βwa βyuganda . βobugazi : ... (+21 more) |
31 |
| 16k | βkibuku βnsi βe βdisitulikit βwa βyuganda . βobugazi : β ... (+20 more) |
30 |
| 32k | βkibuku βnsi βe βdisitulikit βwa βyuganda . βobugazi : β ... (+20 more) |
30 |
| 64k | βkibuku βnsi βe βdisitulikit βwa βyuganda . βobugazi : β ... (+20 more) |
30 |
Sample 3: thumbnail Flippy lwe e okuba mu naye nga Happy Tree Friends.
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βthumb na il βf li pp y βlwe βe βokuba ... (+12 more) |
22 |
| 16k | βthumb na il βf lipp y βlwe βe βokuba βmu ... (+8 more) |
18 |
| 32k | βthumb na il βf lipp y βlwe βe βokuba βmu ... (+7 more) |
17 |
| 64k | βthumbnail βflippy βlwe βe βokuba βmu βnaye βnga βha ppy ... (+3 more) |
13 |
Key Findings
- Best Compression: 64k achieves 4.749x compression
- Lowest UNK Rate: 8k with 0.2870% 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 | 14,199 | 13.79 | 38,632 | 12.7% | 34.6% |
| 2-gram | Subword | 219 π | 7.77 | 2,147 | 71.2% | 99.8% |
| 3-gram | Word | 26,700 | 14.70 | 56,796 | 9.4% | 25.1% |
| 3-gram | Subword | 1,669 | 10.70 | 19,121 | 29.6% | 78.5% |
| 4-gram | Word | 70,764 | 16.11 | 118,544 | 6.5% | 15.1% |
| 4-gram | Subword | 8,452 | 13.05 | 97,188 | 14.1% | 45.2% |
| 5-gram | Word | 61,726 | 15.91 | 94,350 | 7.0% | 14.7% |
| 5-gram | Subword | 28,463 | 14.80 | 255,792 | 7.8% | 27.9% |
Top 5 N-grams by Size
2-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | okuva mu |
5,167 |
| 2 | mu uganda |
4,435 |
| 3 | y e |
3,265 |
| 4 | ya uganda |
2,854 |
| 5 | mu mwaka |
2,411 |
3-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | disitulikiti y e |
1,864 |
| 2 | mu mwaka gwa |
1,837 |
| 3 | mu disitulikiti y |
1,235 |
| 4 | okuva mu okutuuka |
888 |
| 5 | mu okutuuka mu |
872 |
4-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mu disitulikiti y e |
1,155 |
| 2 | okuva mu okutuuka mu |
831 |
| 3 | mu ssaza ly e |
811 |
| 4 | united states of america |
742 |
| 5 | erisangibwa mu ssaza ly |
735 |
5-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | erisangibwa mu ssaza ly e |
735 |
| 2 | mu nsi ya united states |
734 |
| 3 | states of america g e |
733 |
| 4 | united states of america g |
733 |
| 5 | ya united states of america |
733 |
2-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a _ |
510,380 |
| 2 | m u |
198,216 |
| 3 | u _ |
192,024 |
| 4 | _ e |
166,670 |
| 5 | _ m |
159,088 |
3-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | m u _ |
121,316 |
| 2 | _ m u |
114,905 |
| 3 | o k u |
71,249 |
| 4 | w a _ |
70,500 |
| 5 | a _ e |
66,280 |
4-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ m u _ |
89,059 |
| 2 | a _ m u |
52,454 |
| 3 | _ o k u |
49,017 |
| 4 | n g a _ |
45,054 |
| 5 | b w a _ |
32,976 |
5-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a _ m u _ |
43,937 |
| 2 | _ n g a _ |
29,244 |
| 3 | a _ o k u |
23,484 |
| 4 | g a n d a |
23,102 |
| 5 | u g a n d |
22,563 |
Key Findings
- Best Perplexity: 2-gram (subword) with 219
- 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 | 0.7920 | 1.731 | 5.69 | 115,787 | 20.8% |
| 1 | Subword | 1.1968 | 2.292 | 11.50 | 360 | 0.0% |
| 2 | Word | 0.2704 | 1.206 | 1.67 | 657,016 | 73.0% |
| 2 | Subword | 1.2119 | 2.316 | 7.94 | 4,135 | 0.0% |
| 3 | Word | 0.1023 | 1.073 | 1.18 | 1,092,887 | 89.8% |
| 3 | Subword | 0.9620 | 1.948 | 4.72 | 32,782 | 3.8% |
| 4 | Word | 0.0425 π | 1.030 | 1.06 | 1,288,031 | 95.7% |
| 4 | Subword | 0.6947 | 1.619 | 3.00 | 154,616 | 30.5% |
Generated Text Samples (Word-based)
Below are text samples generated from each word-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
mu mutwe gwayo kwe yali mukiise mu mawanga g e kenya visa pour la masaka nku modern uganda olw amanyi mu kitundu ekisooka difiiri bw ebyoto ebisatu by ebijanjaalo biwerako er...nga 7 223 530 mu mukundani eyatometa n asuulibwa eddalu lya uganda premier soccer league uganda
Context Size 2:
okuva mu bumannyirivu bwe ne famire ye jyavaamu baddamu ebigambo bye baba balowozaako h wewale okuka...mu uganda judith babirye obuto bwe n okusoma kwe kakoma yazaalibwa mu buganda nga tewanabaawo kyefan...y e makerere ayongerako nti yalina ekisanja kye ekyokubiri nga enkambi yamaje era essomero lino lwal...
Context Size 3:
disitulikiti y e buhweju olukalala lw abakyala abawandiisi mu uganda eka femrite era abadde muwandii...mu mwaka gwa okutuuka mu yakomawo mu uganda mu n alondebwa okuba omusumba mu n awummula mu josephmu disitulikiti y e kayunga mu paalamenti ey omwenda mwalimu edward katumba wamala yazaalibwa ng enn...
Context Size 4:
mu disitulikiti y e ibanda siniya eyokuna yagimaliririza mu immaculate heart nyakibale secondary sch...okuva mu okutuuka mu oluvannyuma yakola ng omukulu w essomero mu yalondebwa nga ssentebe w ekibiina ...mu ssaza ly e texas mu nsi ya united states of america g e kentucky united states ebisangibwa mu
Generated Text Samples (Subword-based)
Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
_ddenndeti_e_ngoa_kulizyokamu_kuerokokinβo_ebake
Context Size 2:
a_n'ebyasootard,_mu_neba_kiri_aba_u_mmu_binovera_co
Context Size 3:
mu_kino_okwe_yatal_mu_ugaziko_emisomokutender,_mu_gulu
Context Size 4:
_mu_by'amateekera_ea_mu_mabuvo_bwe_mu__okuva_mu_luguumiro
Key Findings
- Best Predictability: Context-4 (word) with 95.7% predictability
- Branching Factor: Decreases with context size (more deterministic)
- Memory Trade-off: Larger contexts require more storage (154,616 contexts)
- Recommendation: Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation
4. Vocabulary Analysis
Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Vocabulary Size | 51,479 |
| Total Tokens | 1,503,057 |
| Mean Frequency | 29.20 |
| Median Frequency | 4 |
| Frequency Std Dev | 508.71 |
Most Common Words
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mu | 89,527 |
| 2 | ku | 30,386 |
| 3 | nga | 29,634 |
| 4 | n | 29,585 |
| 5 | uganda | 17,006 |
| 6 | ne | 15,431 |
| 7 | era | 14,238 |
| 8 | y | 12,890 |
| 9 | e | 10,819 |
| 10 | ya | 10,765 |
Least Common Words (from vocabulary)
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | leku | 2 |
| 2 | agataalimu | 2 |
| 3 | gyebafuna | 2 |
| 4 | omuwuubi | 2 |
| 5 | baakyalira | 2 |
| 6 | eturude | 2 |
| 7 | bannanyinimu | 2 |
| 8 | obusoose | 2 |
| 9 | abanyanya | 2 |
| 10 | kalogo | 2 |
Zipf's Law Analysis
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Zipf Coefficient | 1.0794 |
| RΒ² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.993590 |
| Adherence Quality | excellent |
Coverage Analysis
| Top N Words | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 36.5% |
| Top 1,000 | 63.8% |
| Top 5,000 | 82.3% |
| Top 10,000 | 88.9% |
Key Findings
- Zipf Compliance: RΒ²=0.9936 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law
- High Frequency Dominance: Top 100 words cover 36.5% of corpus
- Long Tail: 41,479 words needed for remaining 11.1% 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 | 0.8731 | 0.3015 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_64d | 64 | 0.8603 | 0.2214 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_128d | 128 | 0.6513 | 0.2031 | N/A | N/A |
| aligned_32d | 32 | 0.8731 π | 0.2999 | 0.0840 | 0.3380 |
| aligned_64d | 64 | 0.8603 | 0.2236 | 0.0980 | 0.3860 |
| aligned_128d | 128 | 0.6513 | 0.2073 | 0.1800 | 0.5160 |
Key Findings
- Best Isotropy: aligned_32d with 0.8731 (more uniform distribution)
- Semantic Density: Average pairwise similarity of 0.2428. Lower values indicate better semantic separation.
- Alignment Quality: Aligned models achieve up to 18.0% 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 | -0.474 | 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 |
|---|---|
-a |
atuzibwa, abafirosoofa, amazze |
-e |
ekifuula, enschede, ebisonjola |
-ba |
banabyamizannyo, bazanye, babonabona |
-b |
banabyamizannyo, bazanye, braun |
-m |
musambi, miracle, margret |
-k |
kyaleetera, kikungiri, kipande |
-ka |
kabwegyere, kaweefube, kagoma |
-o |
okwefuula, omugate, okulinnyisibwa |
Productive Suffixes
| Suffix | Examples |
|---|---|
-a |
atuzibwa, lwawangula, okwefuula |
-wa |
atuzibwa, okulinnyisibwa, obubwa |
-o |
banabyamizannyo, luweero, ssonko |
-e |
enschede, omugate, kipande |
-ra |
kyaleetera, yakyogera, luddirira |
-i |
musambi, kikungiri, ppulaani |
-u |
ekizungu, ntenjeru, gyawulwamu |
-za |
awezezza, byanjigiriza, kulowooza |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
teek |
2.29x | 104 contexts | teeka, ateeka, eteeka |
tion |
2.59x | 28 contexts | action, motion, cation |
wang |
1.81x | 117 contexts | wangu, wangi, lwang |
gand |
2.28x | 38 contexts | ganda, ugand, nganda |
anny |
1.99x | 62 contexts | danny, zannya, zannyi |
atio |
2.45x | 26 contexts | ratio, cation, nation |
embe |
2.09x | 37 contexts | ember, dembe, ddembe |
ugan |
1.97x | 46 contexts | ugand, uganda, ugandas |
erez |
2.01x | 30 contexts | perez, tereza, wereza |
omuk |
1.90x | 34 contexts | omuko, omuka, omukka |
okus |
1.82x | 37 contexts | okusa, okussa, okusiba |
okuk |
1.97x | 26 contexts | okuka, okukka, okukuu |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
-o |
-a |
720 words | okukiikirirwa, okumusaba |
-e |
-a |
516 words | eyonooneddwa, entakyuuka |
-k |
-a |
384 words | kuvuganya, kubula |
-a |
-a |
376 words | atea, akomererwa |
-e |
-o |
230 words | ebipapajjo, ekigattikakibabiro |
-ba |
-a |
197 words | bamerika, balumbagana |
-b |
-a |
185 words | bamerika, balumbagana |
-o |
-o |
147 words | ogwomukwano, okuzaawo |
-e |
-wa |
138 words | eyonooneddwa, egizannyirwa |
-o |
-u |
116 words | ogusibukamu, ogirimu |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| baamatwale | baamat-wa-le |
7.5 | wa |
| ebikwatibwako | ebikwatib-wa-ko |
7.5 | wa |
| okuyisaawo | okuyisa-a-wo |
7.5 | a |
| ekisingamu | ekising-a-mu |
7.5 | a |
| obusingirayo | obusingir-a-yo |
7.5 | a |
| kumuyamba | ku-mu-yamba |
7.5 | yamba |
| kwatuukibwako | kwatuukib-wa-ko |
7.5 | wa |
| mukungaaniramu | mukungaanir-a-mu |
7.5 | a |
| ekitangaala | ekitanga-a-la |
7.5 | a |
| batandikawo | batandik-a-wo |
7.5 | a |
| bannyonyola | bannyony-o-la |
7.5 | o |
| obunakuwavu | obunaku-wa-vu |
7.5 | wa |
| akaateekebwawo | akaateekeb-wa-wo |
7.5 | wa |
| okwetuusaako | okwetuusa-a-ko |
7.5 | a |
| ekwatibwako | ekwatib-wa-ko |
7.5 | wa |
6.6 Linguistic Interpretation
Automated Insight: The language Ganda 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 (4.75x) |
| N-gram | 2-gram | Lowest perplexity (219) |
| Markov | Context-4 | Highest predictability (95.7%) |
| 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: 2026-01-10 10:45:52



















