MODELHugging Face

5/5

mmBERT-base / mmBERT-small

Chewa(nya)Encoder (MLM)None (trained from scratch)ModernBertForMaskedLM

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Model Info

Language

Chewa (nya)

Architecture

ModernBertForMaskedLM

Institution

JHU CLSP

Last Updated

3 Aug 2026

Intended Use Cases

Encoder (MLM)

License & Access

SPDX identifierMIT

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base

Fetch Timestamp

3 Aug 2026

Submitter

JHU CLSP

Full Record

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Registry columns (16/18)

iso code: nya
Model Name: mmBERT-base / mmBERT-small
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/jhu-clsp/mmBERT-base
Year: 2025
Creator/Author(s): JHU CLSP
Paper Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06888
NLP Task: Encoder (MLM)
Architecture: ModernBertForMaskedLMderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type (replaces the library name 'transformers', kept in `library`)
Base Model: None (trained from scratch)
Fine-tuned?: No
License: MIT
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-08-03
Comment: Massively multilingual encoder covering 1800+ languages including Chichewa; base and small are two genuinely different model sizes, kept together as one row. Ex…

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: mmbert-base-mmbert-small-nya
Model Type: LLM
Training Data Sources: 1800+ languages incl. Chichewa web/text corpora
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%

Documentation85%

Recency100%

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