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---
license: mit
tags:
- generated_from_trainer
model-index:
- name: afro-xlmr-large-114L
  results: []
language:
- en
- am
- ar
- so
- sw
- pt
- af
- fr
- zu
- mg
- ha
- sn
- arz
- ny
- ig
- xh
- yo
- st
- rw
- tn
- ti
- ts
- om
- run
- nso
- ee
- ln
- tw
- pcm
- gaa
- loz
- lg
- guw
- bem
- efi
- lue
- lua
- toi
- ve
- tum
- tll
- iso
- kqn
- zne
- umb
- mos
- tiv
- lu
- ff
- kwy
- bci
- rnd
- luo
- wal
- ss
- lun
- wo
- nyk
- kj
- ki
- fon
- bm
- cjk
- din
- dyu
- kab
- kam
- kbp
- kr
- kmb
- kg
- nus
- sg
- taq
- tzm
- nqo
- ndo  
- kwn  
- nzi  
- tsc  
- ary  
- dje  
- tog  
- ada  
- ach  
- sop  
- seh  
- nyn  
- sid  
- yao  
- mgr  
- kri  
- cop  
- kss  
- shi  
- ngl  
- koo  
- urh  
- ndc  
- dop  
- wes  
- nyu  
- nba  
- bum  
- bas  
- oke  
- dua  
- ttj  
- cce  
- lam  
- chw  
- bbj  
- bin
- vmw
---


# afro-xlmr-large-114L

AfroXLMR-large-114L was created by an MLM adaptation of the expanded XLM-R-large model on 114 languages widely spoken in Africa
including 4 high-resource languages. 

### Pre-training corpus
A mix of mC4, Wikipedia and OPUS data

### Languages

There are 76 languages available :
- English (eng)
- Amharic (amh)
- Arabic (ara) 
- Somali (som)
- Kiswahili (swa)
- Portuguese (por)
- Afrikaans (afr)
- French (fra)
- isiZulu (zul)
- Malagasy (mlg)
- Hausa (hau)
- chiShona (sna)
- Egyptian Arabic (arz)
- Chichewa (nya)
- Igbo (ibo)
- isiXhosa (xho)
- Yorùbá (yor)
- Sesotho (sot)
- Kinyarwanda (kin)
- Tigrinya (tir)
- Tsonga (tso)
- Oromo (orm)
- Rundi (run)
- Northern Sotho (nso)
- Ewe (ewe)
- Lingala (lin)
- Twi (twi)
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
- Ga (gaa)
- Lozi (loz)
- Luganda (lug)
- Gun (guw)
- Bemba (bem)
- Efik (efi)
- Luvale (lue) 
- Luba-Lulua (lua)
- Tonga (toi)
- Tshivenḓa (ven)
- Tumbuka (tum)
- Tetela (tll)
- Isoko (iso)
- Kaonde (kqn)
- Zande (zne)
- Umbundu (umb)
- Mossi (mos)
- Tiv (tiv)
- Luba-Katanga (lub)
- Fula (fuv)
- San Salvador Kongo (kwy)
- Baoulé (bci)
- Ruund (rnd)
- Luo (luo)
- Wolaitta (wal) 
- Swazi (ssw)
- Lunda (lun)
- Wolof (wol)
- Nyaneka (nyk) 
- Kwanyama (kua)
- Kikuyu (kik)
- Fon (fon)
- Bambara (bam)
- Chokwe (cjk)
- Dinka (dik)
- Dyula (dyu)
- Kabyle (kab)
- Kamba (kam)
- Kabiyè (kbp)
- Kanuri (knc)
- Kimbundu (kmb)
- Kikongo (kon)
- Nuer (nus)
- Sango (sag)
- Tamasheq (taq)
- Tamazight (tzm)
- N'ko (nqo)


### Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Google Cloud for providing us access to TPU v4-8 through the free cloud credits. Model trained using flax, before converted to pytorch.


### BibTeX entry and citation info.
```
@article{li2025ssa,
  title={SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?},
  author={Li, Senyu and Wang, Jiayi and Ali, Felermino DMA and Cherry, Colin and Deutsch, Daniel and Briakou, Eleftheria and Sousa-Silva, Rui and Cardoso, Henrique Lopes and Stenetorp, Pontus and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04557},
  year={2025}
}

```