MODELHugging Face

5/5

SERENGETI

Duguri(dug)LMXLM-REncoder (XLM-R base)

Model Info

Language

Duguri (dug)

Architecture

Encoder (XLM-R base)

Institution

Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte (UBC-NLP)

Last Updated

26 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

Language Identification (517 African languages); NLU tasks across 32 languages

License & Access

SPDX identifierApache-2.0 (research only; commercial use needs author permission)

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

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

Fetch Timestamp

26 May 2026

Submitter

Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte (UBC-NLP)

Full Record

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code: dug
Model Name: SERENGETI
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/serengeti
Year: 2023
Creator/Author(s): Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte (UBC-NLP)
Paper Reference: Adebara et al. (2023) — SERENGETI: Massively Multilingual Language Models for Africa. ACL Findings 2023. https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.97
NLP Task: LM
Architecture: Encoder (XLM-R base)
Base Model: XLM-R
Fine-tuned?: No
License: Apache-2.0 (research only; commercial use needs author permission)
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: Language Identification (517 African languages); NLU tasks across 32 languages
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-26
Comment: dug is one of 517 African languages in SERENGETI pretraining. Confirmed in supported-languages.txt on HuggingFace. Not individually benchmarked. Also: SERENGETI…

Readiness (LRS) (7/7)

model id: serengeti-dug
Model Type: LLMderivedHugging Face card: pipeline_tag
Training Data Sources: Religious texts, government docs, health docs, news, existing corpora — 517 African languages, 7.1B tokens
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 Coverage75%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation83%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

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