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serengeti

Afar(aar)fill-maskXLMRobertaForMaskedLM
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Model Info

Language
Afar (aar)
Architecture
XLMRobertaForMaskedLM
Institution
UBC-NLP
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

Intended Use Cases

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License & Access

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Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/serengeti
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Submitter
UBC-NLP

Full Record

18 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (12/18)

iso code
aar
Model Name
serengeti
Where is it hosted
Hugging Face
Link
https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/serengeti
Year
2023
Creator/Author(s)
UBC-NLP
Paper Reference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10785
NLP Task
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Architecture
XLMRobertaForMaskedLMderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type (replaces the library name 'transformers', kept in `library`)
Base Model
Not stated
Fine-tuned?
Not stated
License
Not stated
Open Access
Restricted
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Comment
Not stated

Readiness (LRS) (6/7)

model id
serengeti-aar
Model Type
LLM
Training Data Sources
Not stated
Benchmark Used
SERENGETI NLU Eval Suitederivedregistry benchmark records for this model
Benchmark Score
Multiple NLU tasks for African languages
Benchmark Date
2023
Status
Activederivedupdated within 3 years

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation80%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
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