MODELHugging Face

5/5

espnet/xeus

Afar(aar)ASRE-BranchformerEncoder

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Model Info

Language

Afar (aar)

Architecture

Encoder

Institution

Chen, William; Watanabe, Shinji; et al. (CMU WAVLab / ESPnet)

Last Updated

11 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

ML-SUPERB leaderboard SOTA (tops MMS, w2v-BERT 2.0, XLS-R); SUPERB 4 tasks SOTA

License & Access

SPDX identifierApache-2.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/espnet/xeus

Fetch Timestamp

11 May 2026

Submitter

Chen, William; Watanabe, Shinji; et al. (CMU WAVLab / ESPnet)

Full Record

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code: aar
Model Name: espnet/xeus
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/espnet/xeus
Year: 2024
Creator/Author(s): Chen, William; Watanabe, Shinji; et al. (CMU WAVLab / ESPnet)
Paper Reference: Chen et al. (2024) — XEUS: Towards Robust Speech Representation Learning for Thousands of Languages. arXiv:2407.00837
NLP Task: ASR
Architecture: Encoder
Base Model: E-Branchformer
Fine-tuned?: No
License: Apache-2.0
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: ML-SUPERB leaderboard SOTA (tops MMS, w2v-BERT 2.0, XLS-R); SUPERB 4 tasks SOTA
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-11
Comment: Large-scale multilingual speech encoder pre-trained on 4,057 languages. Afar likely included among 4,057 languages (not explicitly confirmed). Uses HuBERT-style…

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: espnet-xeus-aar
Model Type: ASR
Training Data Sources: MMS Ulab (7,413 hours / 4,057 languages) + acoustic augmentation (noise/reverb)
Benchmark Used: Not stated
Benchmark Score: Not stated
Benchmark Date: Not stated
Status: Activederivedupdated within 3 years

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage100%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation80%

Recency100%

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