CompactNameClassifier: Ultra-Efficient Name Classifier Trained From Scratch

🤗 Hugging Face Model Hub | 🐙 GitHub Repository

CompactNameClassifier is a state-of-the-art, ultra-lightweight neural text classifier trained from scratch on a curated, de-biased dataset of 1,606,412 records (1,458,041 train + 148,371 val; 1.18M clean human names across global and regional cultures + 280k non-names, unigrams, gamer tags, and alphanumeric codes).

Unlike generic large language models or pretrained BERT variants, CompactNameClassifier has zero external pretrained dependencies, weighs just ~632 KB (INT8 ONNX), and delivers sub-millisecond CPU inference (< 0.45 ms per query).

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⚡ Performance Highlights

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🧠 Architectural Innovations

1. Custom Domain WordPiece Tokenizer (100% Uncased, 4,000 Vocab):

   • Configured with Sequence([NFKC(), Lowercase(), StripAccents()]) and pre-tokenized via Sequence([Whitespace(), Punctuation(), Digits(individual_digits=True)]).
   • Normalizes all input to lowercase at the Rust tokenizer level, making the model completely immune to uppercase/titlecase domain mismatches.
   • Isolates individual digits (0–9), allowing alphanumeric noise (112_, 3048, 99) to be recognized without exploding the vocabulary.

2. Factorized Embeddings:

   • Projects token vocabulary through Embedding(4000, 64) -> Linear(64, 128, bias=False).
   • Cuts embedding parameter footprint in half with zero loss in representational capacity.

3. Pre-LN Transformer Encoder:

   • 2-layer, 128-hidden, 4-attention heads with GELU activations and Pre-LayerNorm (norm_first=True) for fast, stable convergence.

4. Masked Dual Pooling (MeanPool + MaxPool):

   • Concatenates Masked Mean Pooling (128) + Masked Max Pooling (128) into a 256-dimensional representation.
   • Max Pooling acts as an anomaly detector—if even one token in the sequence indicates non-name noise (e.g., _, CSE3048, 112), the max-pooled features spike and alert the classifier immediately.

5. V8 & Runtime Optimization:

   • ONNX graph accepts int32 inputs, allowing Node.js and Python runtimes to pass native 32-bit buffers with minimal overhead.

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📦 Files in this Repository

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🚀 Quickstart & Usage

1. Clone Repository & Setup

git clone https://github.com/SupratimRK/.model.base.nc.git
cd .model.base.nc
npm install

2. Download Model from Hugging Face Hub

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import os

repo_id = "SupratimRK/compact-name-classifier"

# Download ONNX model and tokenizer
onnx_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="model_int8.onnx")
tok_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="tokenizer.json")

3. Python Inference (ONNX Runtime)

import numpy as np
import onnxruntime as ort
from tokenizers import Tokenizer

# Load tokenizer and session
tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_file("tokenizer.json")
tokenizer.enable_padding(length=20, pad_token="[PAD]", pad_id=0)
tokenizer.enable_truncation(max_length=20)

session = ort.InferenceSession("model_int8.onnx")

# Tokenize
names = ["Sayantika Biswas", "ShadowHunter99", "CSE3048"]
encodings = tokenizer.encode_batch(names)

input_ids = np.array([e.ids for e in encodings], dtype=np.int32)
attention_mask = np.array([e.attention_mask for e in encodings], dtype=np.int32)

# Run Inference
logits = session.run(None, {"input_ids": input_ids, "attention_mask": attention_mask})[0]
exp_logits = np.exp(logits - np.max(logits, axis=-1, keepdims=True))
probs = exp_logits / np.sum(exp_logits, axis=-1, keepdims=True)

labels = {0: "NON_NAME", 1: "REAL_NAME"}
for text, prob in zip(names, probs):
    pred = int(np.argmax(prob))
    print(f"{text:20} => {labels[pred]} ({prob[pred]*100:.1f}%)")

Output:

Sayantika Biswas     => REAL_NAME (97.7%)
ShadowHunter99       => NON_NAME (99.8%)
CSE3048              => NON_NAME (99.9%)

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4. Node.js Native Inference (onnxruntime-node)

import { CompactNameClassifier } from './scripts/classifier.mjs';

const classifier = new CompactNameClassifier();
await classifier.init();

const result = await classifier.predict('Sayantika Biswas');
console.log(result);
// {
//   text: 'Sayantika Biswas',
//   classification: 'REAL_NAME',
//   confidence: 0.998,
//   raw_probs: { non_name: 0.002, real_name: 0.998 }
// }

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5. PyTorch Inference

import torch
from scripts.model import CompactNameClassifier

model = CompactNameClassifier(
    vocab_size=4000,
    emb_dim=64,
    hidden_dim=128,
    num_layers=2,
    num_heads=4,
    max_len=20,
    dropout=0.0
)
model.load_state_dict(torch.load("models/model_weights.pt", weights_only=True))
model.eval()

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📊 Training Data

• Total Dataset Size: 510,162 examples
  • Positive Examples (Real Names): 247,864 entries (audited, 100% pure alphabetic, spanning diverse global cultures: Western, South Asian, East Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, African).
  • Negative Examples (Non-Names): 262,298 entries including gaming handles, social media usernames, alphanumeric serial numbers, code identifiers, and 52k curated high-frequency English vocabulary words.
• Split: 90% Training / 10% Validation (459,206 Train / 50,956 Val)

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📄 License

This model and its associated weights and tokenizers are released under the MIT License.