MODELHugging Face

5/5

SERENGETI

Bari(bfa)LM (Pretrained Encoder)XLM-RXLMRobertaForMaskedLM

Model Info

Language

Bari (bfa)

Architecture

XLMRobertaForMaskedLM

Institution

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

Last Updated

14 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

Multiple NLU tasks across 20 datasets for African langs

License & Access

SPDX identifierProprietary (UBC license)

Restricted — review the source terms before use.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/serengeti

Fetch Timestamp

14 May 2026

Submitter

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

Full Record

24 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code: bfa
Model Name: SERENGETI
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace/GitHub
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/serengeti
Year: 2023
Creator/Author(s): Adebara, Elmadany, Abdul-Mageed, Inciarte (UBC-NLP)
Paper Reference: SERENGETI: Massively Multilingual Language Models for Africa (Findings of ACL 2023)
NLP Task: LM (Pretrained Encoder)
Architecture: XLMRobertaForMaskedLMderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type
Base Model: XLM-R
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: Proprietary (UBC license)
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: Multiple NLU tasks across 20 datasets for African langs
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-14
Comment: Adebara et al. 2023

Readiness (LRS) (7/7)

model id: serengeti-bfa
Model Type: LLMderivedHugging Face card: pipeline_tag
Training Data Sources: 517 African languages + 10 high-resource languages
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 Coverage79%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation80%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

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32 languagesFon(fon)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesFula(ful)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesHausa(hau)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesIgbo(ibo)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesGikuyu(kik)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesLingala(lin)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesLuganda(lug)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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32 languagesMalagasy(mlg)XLMRobertaForMaskedLMfill-mask

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