Cheetah

Malba Birifor(bfo)NLG (Generation)T5/mT5-style

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Model Info

Language

Malba Birifor (bfo)

Architecture

T5/mT5-style

Institution

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

Last Updated

14 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

NLG across 7 generation downstream tasks for African languages

License & Access

SPDX identifierProprietary (UBC)

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Provenance

Source URL

https://github.com/UBC-NLP/cheetah

Fetch Timestamp

14 May 2026

Submitter

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

Full Record

18 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (16/18)

iso code: bfo
Model Name: Cheetah
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace/GitHub
Link: https://github.com/UBC-NLP/cheetah
Year: 2023
Creator/Author(s): Adebara, Elmadany, Abdul-Mageed (UBC-NLP)
Paper Reference: Cheetah: Natural Language Generation for 517 African Languages (ACL 2024)
NLP Task: NLG (Generation)
Architecture: Not stated
Base Model: T5/mT5-style
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: Proprietary (UBC)
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: NLG across 7 generation downstream tasks for African languages
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-14
Comment: Adebara et al. 2024