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AfriByT5-Base

Akan(aka)MTByT5-BaseEncoder-Decoder
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Model Info

Language
Akan (aka)
Architecture
Encoder-Decoder
Institution
Masakhane
Last Updated
12 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

MT

License & Access

SPDX identifierApache-2.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/masakhane/afri-byt5-base
Fetch Timestamp
12 May 2026
Submitter
Masakhane

Full Record

18 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (16/18)

iso code
aka
Model Name
AfriByT5-Base
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/masakhane/afri-byt5-base
Year
2022
Creator/Author(s)
Masakhane
Paper Reference
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.223/
NLP Task
MT
Architecture
Encoder-Decoder
Base Model
ByT5-Base
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
Apache-2.0
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-05-12
Comment
Byte-level mT5 variant; supports Twi

Readiness (LRS) (2/7)

model id
afribyt5-base-aka
Model Type
Not stated
Training Data Sources
AfroMAFT Corpus
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Not stated

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation73%
Recency100%

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