MODELHugging Face

5/5

afro-xlmr-large

Chewa(nya)fill-maskXLMRobertaForMaskedLM

Model Info

Language

Chewa (nya)

Architecture

XLMRobertaForMaskedLM

Institution

Davlan

Last Updated

27 Oct 2026

Intended Use Cases

fill-mask

License & Access

SPDX identifiermit

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/Davlan/afro-xlmr-large

Fetch Timestamp

27 Oct 2026

Submitter

Davlan

Full Record

14 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (12/18)

iso code: nya
Model Name: afro-xlmr-large
Where is it hosted: Hugging Face
Link: https://huggingface.co/Davlan/afro-xlmr-large
Year: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Davlan
Paper Reference: Not stated
NLP Task: fill-mask
Architecture: XLMRobertaForMaskedLMderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type (replaces the library name 'transformers', kept in `library`)
Base Model: Not stated
Fine-tuned?: Not stated
License: mit
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-10-27
Comment: Not stated

Readiness (LRS) (2/7)

model id: afro-xlmr-large-nya
Model Type: LLM
Training Data Sources: Not stated
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%

Documentation85%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

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