metadata

license: mit
tags:
  - generated_from_trainer
model-index:
  - name: afro-xlmr-large-76L_script
    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

afro-xlmr-large-75L_script

AfroXLMR-large was created by first augmenting the XLM-R-large model with missing scripts (N'Ko and Tifinagh), followed by an MLM adaptation of the expanded XLM-R-large model on 76 languages widely spoken in Africa including 4 high-resource languages.

Pre-training corpus

A mix of mC4, Wikipedia and OPUS data

Languages

There are 75 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)

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank Google Cloud for providing us access to TPU v3-8 through the free cloud credits. Model trained using flax, before converted to pytorch.

BibTeX entry and citation info.

@misc{adelani2023sib200,
      title={SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects}, 
      author={David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Hannah Liu and Xiaoyu Shen and Nikita Vassilyev and Jesujoba O. Alabi and Yanke Mao and Haonan Gao and Annie En-Shiun Lee},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2309.07445},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}