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FLORES+

FLORES+

Tier 1 test set: 1,012 sentences per language.

Datasets
Open
devtest
Run
~/african-tokenizer
$
python scripts/flores_tier1.py
✓ languages 12 Tier 1
✓ 13-gram overlap 0 of 1,012
● written results/flores-tier1.json
Pixel mosaic band in violet and magenta across pale cells
Nzinga · results
1,012 sentences, devtest ·
FLORES+
tier1.premium
Tier 1 premium
1.55x
best.saving
Fewer than the best other
22%
languages.ahead
Ahead, of 21
21

Overview

FLORES+ is the Open Language Data Initiative's test set, derived from FLORES-200. Nzinga uses devtest: 1,012 professionally translated sentences per language, checked for 13-word overlap with training text.

What it measures

devtest
split
1,012 translated sentences in each language
tier1
set
12 Tier 1 languages, English and French
premium
ratio
Tokens against the English sentences
overlap
check
No 13-word sequence in training
coverage
count
21 of the 26 NTREX languages

Setup

01

Accept the dataset terms

FLORES+ is gated on Hugging Face; accept its terms first.

02

Set your token

Export HF_TOKEN so the script can download the devtest split.

03

Run the benchmark

Run flores_tier1.py. Every token count is written to the results folder.

Count your own sentence in the browser.

Paste a sentence into the live comparison. Every figure here is read from a results file.

~/african-tokenizer
zsh
$ bash scripts/fetch_data.sh
$ export HF_TOKEN=hf_••••••••
$ python scripts/premium_v2.py
✓ NTREX-128 · ✓ FLORES+ · ✓ baselines
● 5 results files · about 4 min