language: uk
language_name: Ukrainian
language_family: slavic_east
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-slavic_east
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: 4.642
- name: best_isotropy
type: isotropy
value: 0.7906
- name: vocabulary_size
type: vocab
value: 0
generated: 2026-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
Ukrainian - Wikilangs Models
Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study
This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on Ukrainian 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
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 | 3.497x | 3.50 | 0.0536% | 2,399,514 |
| 16k | 3.921x | 3.92 | 0.0601% | 2,140,331 |
| 32k | 4.309x | 4.31 | 0.0661% | 1,947,512 |
| 64k | 4.642x 🏆 | 4.64 | 0.0712% | 1,807,481 |
Tokenization Examples
Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size:
Sample 1: Шлепаков: Шлепаков Арнольд Миколайович — історик. Шлепаков Микола Степанович — ф...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | ▁ш ле па ков : ▁ш ле па ков ▁ар ... (+17 more) |
27 |
| 16k | ▁ш ле па ков : ▁ш ле па ков ▁арно ... (+15 more) |
25 |
| 32k | ▁шле па ков : ▁шле па ков ▁арнольд ▁миколайович ▁— ... (+11 more) |
21 |
| 64k | ▁шлепаков : ▁шлепаков ▁арнольд ▁миколайович ▁— ▁історик . ▁шлепаков ▁микола ... (+5 more) |
15 |
Sample 2: Села: Біївці — Київська область, Обухівський район Біївці — Полтавська область, ...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | ▁села : ▁бі їв ці ▁— ▁київська ▁область , ▁обу ... (+12 more) |
22 |
| 16k | ▁села : ▁бі їв ці ▁— ▁київська ▁область , ▁обухівський ... (+10 more) |
20 |
| 32k | ▁села : ▁бі ївці ▁— ▁київська ▁область , ▁обухівський ▁район ... (+8 more) |
18 |
| 64k | ▁села : ▁бі ївці ▁— ▁київська ▁область , ▁обухівський ▁район ... (+8 more) |
18 |
Sample 3: Апіоніни (Насіннеїди, Грушовидки) — це підродина жуків з родини Апіоніди (Apioni...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | ▁а пі оні ни ▁( на сі н не ї ... (+27 more) |
37 |
| 16k | ▁а пі оні ни ▁( на сін не їди , ... (+23 more) |
33 |
| 32k | ▁а пі оні ни ▁( на сін не їди , ... (+22 more) |
32 |
| 64k | ▁а пі оні ни ▁( насін не їди , ▁гру ... (+19 more) |
29 |
Key Findings
- Best Compression: 64k achieves 4.642x compression
- Lowest UNK Rate: 8k with 0.0536% 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 | 187,448 | 17.52 | 685,840 | 5.0% | 14.5% |
| 2-gram | Subword | 437 🏆 | 8.77 | 13,081 | 55.4% | 97.6% |
| 3-gram | Word | 286,638 | 18.13 | 787,827 | 5.6% | 11.9% |
| 3-gram | Subword | 4,150 | 12.02 | 116,111 | 18.3% | 58.5% |
| 4-gram | Word | 426,525 | 18.70 | 1,132,759 | 6.5% | 12.0% |
| 4-gram | Subword | 25,826 | 14.66 | 714,146 | 8.4% | 27.8% |
| 5-gram | Word | 231,506 | 17.82 | 725,209 | 9.1% | 16.1% |
| 5-gram | Subword | 110,683 | 16.76 | 2,359,262 | 4.5% | 15.9% |
Top 5 N-grams by Size
2-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | у році |
39,132 |
| 2 | під час |
21,948 |
| 3 | ic в |
21,270 |
| 4 | а також |
20,792 |
| 5 | в україні |
18,087 |
3-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ic в базі |
12,721 |
| 2 | оригінальному новому загальному |
10,477 |
| 3 | в оригінальному новому |
10,475 |
| 4 | новому загальному каталозі |
10,473 |
| 5 | до н е |
8,904 |
4-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | в оригінальному новому загальному |
10,475 |
| 2 | оригінальному новому загальному каталозі |
10,468 |
| 3 | ic в оригінальному новому |
8,549 |
| 4 | новому загальному каталозі ic |
7,477 |
| 5 | загальному каталозі ic в |
6,124 |
5-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі |
10,468 |
| 2 | ic в оригінальному новому загальному |
8,549 |
| 3 | оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic |
7,477 |
| 4 | новому загальному каталозі ic в |
6,124 |
| 5 | бази даних про об єкти |
5,241 |
2-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ п |
2,788,984 |
| 2 | а _ |
2,782,956 |
| 3 | _ в |
2,478,604 |
| 4 | , _ |
2,402,312 |
| 5 | . _ |
2,316,510 |
3-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ н а |
1,039,254 |
| 2 | с ь к |
1,024,566 |
| 3 | _ п р |
870,352 |
| 4 | _ п о |
858,794 |
| 5 | н а _ |
850,334 |
4-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | о г о _ |
679,817 |
| 2 | н н я _ |
490,022 |
| 3 | _ н а _ |
413,243 |
| 4 | с ь к о |
409,920 |
| 5 | _ п р о |
378,210 |
5-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | к р а ї н |
282,501 |
| 2 | у к р а ї |
252,628 |
| 3 | е н н я _ |
250,361 |
| 4 | _ у к р а |
236,337 |
| 5 | н о г о _ |
219,776 |
Key Findings
- Best Perplexity: 2-gram (subword) with 437
- Entropy Trend: Decreases with larger n-grams (more predictable)
- Coverage: Top-1000 patterns cover ~16% 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 | 1.0632 | 2.089 | 11.27 | 1,098,688 | 0.0% |
| 1 | Subword | 1.0573 | 2.081 | 7.85 | 5,267 | 0.0% |
| 2 | Word | 0.3016 | 1.233 | 1.83 | 12,375,104 | 69.8% |
| 2 | Subword | 0.8473 | 1.799 | 5.87 | 41,346 | 15.3% |
| 3 | Word | 0.0881 | 1.063 | 1.16 | 22,683,749 | 91.2% |
| 3 | Subword | 0.8543 | 1.808 | 4.91 | 242,807 | 14.6% |
| 4 | Word | 0.0277 🏆 | 1.019 | 1.04 | 26,324,244 | 97.2% |
| 4 | Subword | 0.7559 | 1.689 | 3.63 | 1,193,273 | 24.4% |
Generated Text Samples (Word-based)
Below are text samples generated from each word-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
в батьківський дім і його окраїнним морем протоками назва мовою за петра чардиніна в середині 2у першому турі з них 22 січня за негайне перекидання до а по абдуллах аль азхарі 4 результати голос панк музиканти науковці астрономи вважали для кількості загиблих 95 82 трубы сл...
Context Size 2:
у році стипендію і поступити у підпорядкування головної команди вперше була видана 9 серпня в сьогод...під час якої були самодержавство православ я офіційною мовою була османська початкова освіта є одніє...ic в базі vizier ic в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic в базі vizier ic в оригінальному
Context Size 3:
ic в базі simbad ic в базі nasa extragalactic database бази даних про об єкти ngc ic icоригінальному новому загальному каталозі перевірена інформація про ic ic в базі nasa extragalactic d...в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic в оригін...
Context Size 4:
в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic 541 в ор...оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic 260 в базі simbad ic в базі vizier ic в базі nasa extrag...ic в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі ic в оригінальному новому загальному каталозі перевіре...
Generated Text Samples (Subword-based)
Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
_й_—_заходу_да_аониндиннив_сти_за_сути_в_бії_мія
Context Size 2:
_празии_5_махол_на_є_боваєктажам_в_відня_вийшоми_ла
Context Size 3:
_нання_у_сунути_імське_нобійно-жозем_прення_одиланзент
Context Size 4:
ого_слідних_примусоння_верхнею_черничо_на_саку,_торгове_в
Key Findings
- Best Predictability: Context-4 (word) with 97.2% predictability
- Branching Factor: Decreases with context size (more deterministic)
- Memory Trade-off: Larger contexts require more storage (1,193,273 contexts)
- Recommendation: Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation
4. Vocabulary Analysis
Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Vocabulary Size | 524,715 |
| Total Tokens | 29,104,691 |
| Mean Frequency | 55.47 |
| Median Frequency | 4 |
| Frequency Std Dev | 1788.64 |
Most Common Words
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | в | 584,423 |
| 2 | у | 509,046 |
| 3 | і | 475,294 |
| 4 | на | 421,086 |
| 5 | з | 398,175 |
| 6 | та | 338,290 |
| 7 | до | 243,692 |
| 8 | що | 178,466 |
| 9 | року | 157,886 |
| 10 | за | 156,732 |
Least Common Words (from vocabulary)
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | паніцца | 2 |
| 2 | ро́рбах | 2 |
| 3 | рубе́ль | 2 |
| 4 | катархей | 2 |
| 5 | азой | 2 |
| 6 | приской | 2 |
| 7 | гадейському | 2 |
| 8 | сезан | 2 |
| 9 | конезаводства | 2 |
| 10 | сінельникова | 2 |
Zipf's Law Analysis
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Zipf Coefficient | 0.8995 |
| R² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.997133 |
| Adherence Quality | excellent |
Coverage Analysis
| Top N Words | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 24.5% |
| Top 1,000 | 44.1% |
| Top 5,000 | 62.3% |
| Top 10,000 | 70.6% |
Key Findings
- Zipf Compliance: R²=0.9971 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law
- High Frequency Dominance: Top 100 words cover 24.5% of corpus
- Long Tail: 514,715 words needed for remaining 29.4% 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 | 0.7906 🏆 | 0.3688 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_64d | 64 | 0.7645 | 0.2903 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_128d | 128 | 0.6859 | 0.2083 | N/A | N/A |
| aligned_32d | 32 | 0.7906 | 0.3638 | 0.0600 | 0.2820 |
| aligned_64d | 64 | 0.7645 | 0.2932 | 0.1320 | 0.4220 |
| aligned_128d | 128 | 0.6859 | 0.2081 | 0.1620 | 0.5000 |
Key Findings
- Best Isotropy: mono_32d with 0.7906 (more uniform distribution)
- Semantic Density: Average pairwise similarity of 0.2887. Lower values indicate better semantic separation.
- Alignment Quality: Aligned models achieve up to 16.2% 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 | 0.010 | 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 |
|---|---|
-с |
серіри, словникарство, стійок |
-к |
клинописній, купрієнко, контролюючого |
-ма |
макаронічну, матеріалізму, македонянин |
-а |
акціонерів, адвокатами, арманізм |
-ко |
контролюючого, кошториси, конгресмен |
-ка |
калькутти, карагандинською, катренко |
-в |
воллс, вигином, вимагаючи |
-по |
популяція, поклики, поданні |
Productive Suffixes
| Suffix | Examples |
|---|---|
-а |
бехерівка, ядерна, чигиринська |
-ий |
летунський, нецентрований, триденський |
-и |
приспали, мільйонерки, серіри |
-о |
купрієнко, словникарство, контролюючого |
-й |
клинописній, летунський, нецентрований |
-і |
міліметрі, червоніші, осяяні |
-го |
контролюючого, бактерійного, жартівливого |
-м |
вигином, дослідженим, македонським |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
ають |
2.47x | 104 contexts | дають, лають, мають |
увал |
1.86x | 304 contexts | тувал, тувалу, бувало |
ьког |
2.42x | 55 contexts | ського, яцького, яського |
ання |
1.84x | 137 contexts | пання, вання, рання |
ький |
2.15x | 58 contexts | ський, цький, яський |
ськи |
1.41x | 426 contexts | ський, яський, леськи |
ніст |
1.62x | 185 contexts | ність, юність, ністру |
ленн |
1.66x | 160 contexts | ленну, ленні, гленн |
єтьс |
2.55x | 26 contexts | ється, чується, діється |
ької |
2.50x | 27 contexts | ської, яцької, тоцької |
ійсь |
1.47x | 273 contexts | якійсь, військ, бійськ |
йськ |
1.51x | 206 contexts | єйськ, єйська, тайськ |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
-п |
-и |
72 words | постачаючи, пропорции |
-с |
-а |
69 words | сповідника, струмочка |
-к |
-а |
68 words | каца, козлівська |
-п |
-а |
65 words | прописна, петровська |
-с |
-й |
65 words | сучавський, склифосовский |
-с |
-и |
58 words | скрипники, сукупностями |
-в |
-и |
57 words | вистачати, взаємовигідними |
-к |
-й |
55 words | китмановський, карпатскій |
-п |
-і |
55 words | поліморфні, палеарктиці |
-к |
-и |
54 words | кварками, кроками |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| народилася | народил-а-ся |
7.5 | а |
| послідовниками | послідовни-ка-ми |
7.5 | ка |
| кінострічках | кіностріч-ка-х |
7.5 | ка |
| фальшивих | фальши-в-их |
7.5 | в |
| заробітками | заробіт-ка-ми |
7.5 | ка |
| тейякскую | тейякс-ку-ю |
7.5 | ку |
| священиками | священи-ка-ми |
7.5 | ка |
| кронтовская | кронтовс-ка-я |
7.5 | ка |
| правилами | правил-а-ми |
7.5 | а |
| меридіану | мериді-а-ну |
7.5 | а |
| соціалізмові | соціалізм-о-ві |
7.5 | о |
| программе | програм-м-е |
7.5 | м |
| універсамі | універса-м-і |
7.5 | м |
| автошляхами | автошлях-а-ми |
7.5 | а |
| абразивного | абразив-но-го |
6.0 | абразив |
6.6 Linguistic Interpretation
Automated Insight: The language Ukrainian 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 (4.64x) |
| N-gram | 2-gram | Lowest perplexity (437) |
| Markov | Context-4 | Highest predictability (97.2%) |
| 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) × 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.
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.
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
- 🌐 Website: wikilangs.org
- 🤗 Models: huggingface.co/wikilangs
- 📊 Data: wikipedia-monthly
- 👤 Author: Omar Kamali
- 🤝 Sponsor: Featherless AI
Generated by Wikilangs Models Pipeline
Report Date: 2026-01-11 06:57:52



















