AfroLID v1.5

Malba Birifor(bfo)Classification (LID)SERENGETIXLMRobertaForSequenceClassification

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Model Info

Language

Malba Birifor (bfo)

Architecture

XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification

Institution

Adebara, Elmadany, Abdul-Mageed, Inciarte (UBC-NLP)

Last Updated

14 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

LID for 517 African languages; macro-F1 97.41

License & Access

SPDX identifierApache-2.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/afrolid_1.5

Fetch Timestamp

14 May 2026

Submitter

Adebara, Elmadany, Abdul-Mageed, Inciarte (UBC-NLP)

Full Record

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iso code: bfo
Model Name: AfroLID v1.5
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace/GitHub
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/afrolid_1.5
Year: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Adebara, Elmadany, Abdul-Mageed, Inciarte (UBC-NLP)
Paper Reference: AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages (EMNLP 2022); arXiv:2210.11744
NLP Task: Classification (LID)
Architecture: XLMRobertaForSequenceClassificationderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type
Base Model: SERENGETI
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: Apache-2.0
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: LID for 517 African languages; macro-F1 97.41
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-14
Comment: Verified in supported-languages file