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    LID Lite 608

    LID Lite 608

    LID family · open weights on Hugging Face.

    fastText language identification across Nigerian languages (Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin, English).

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    Built for production use

    Open-weights repository on Hugging Face

    Integrated ecosystem protocol tier.

    Compatible with Transformers library

    Integrated ecosystem protocol tier.

    Optimised for low-latency inference

    Integrated ecosystem protocol tier.

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    Integrated ecosystem protocol tier.

    / Quick start

    Use LID Lite 608, straight from its model card.

    example.pyfrom the model card
    import json, math, fasttext
    from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
    repo = "olaverse/lid-lite-608"
    model = fasttext.load_model(hf_hub_download(repo, "model.ftz"))
    calib = json.load(open(hf_hub_download(repo, "priors.json")))
    traffic_bias = {l: calib["alpha"] * v for l, v in calib["log_prior_ratio"].items()}
    def identify(text, mode="coverage"):
    text = " ".join(text.split()) # fastText needs a single line
    k = 40 if mode == "traffic" else 1
    labels, probs = model.predict([text], k=k) # list input: works with NumPy 1 and 2
    labels, probs = labels[0], probs[0]
    scores = {l[9:]: math.log(max(p, 1e-12)) + (traffic_bias.get(l[9:], 0.0) if mode == "traffic" else 0.0)
    for l, p in zip(labels, probs)}
    return max(scores, key=scores.get)
    identify("Ẹ kú àárọ̀, ṣé dáadáa ni?") # 'yor_Latn'
    identify("Habari za asubuhi") # 'swh_Latn'
    identify("Bonjour mon ami", mode="traffic") # 'fra_Latn'
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    / Built with
    Transformers PyTorch Python

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    fastText language identification across Nigerian languages (Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin, English).

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