diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 87e654b..3a6e69f 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 *.csv filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# don't count tex files in language statistics
+example/higgs_ml/tex/* linguist-vendored