Scaling Laws or Threshold Effects: Exploring the Optimal Vocabulary Size for Balancing Performance and Efficiency in Low-Resource Languages

Ao Han, Andong Chen 0001, Yuan Sun 0010, Xiaobing Zhao. Scaling Laws or Threshold Effects: Exploring the Optimal Vocabulary Size for Balancing Performance and Efficiency in Low-Resource Languages. In Maria Liakata, Viviane P. Moreira, Jiajun Zhang 0001, David Jurgens, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2026, San Diego, California, United States, July 2-7, 2026. pages 31741-31758, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

@inproceedings{HanCSZ26,
  title = {Scaling Laws or Threshold Effects: Exploring the Optimal Vocabulary Size for Balancing Performance and Efficiency in Low-Resource Languages},
  author = {Ao Han and Andong Chen 0001 and Yuan Sun 0010 and Xiaobing Zhao},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1588/},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/HanCSZ26},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {31741-31758},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2026, San Diego, California, United States, July 2-7, 2026},
  editor = {Maria Liakata and Viviane P. Moreira and Jiajun Zhang 0001 and David Jurgens},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-395-1},
}