Sunbird/translate-nllb-1.3b-salt

Lugbara(lgg)MTfacebook/nllb-200-1.3BEncoder-Decoder (NLLB fine-tune)

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Model Info

Language

Lugbara (lgg)

Architecture

Encoder-Decoder (NLLB fine-tune)

Institution

Akera, Benjamin et al. (Sunbird AI / Makerere University AI Lab)

Last Updated

5 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

MT (English ↔ Lugbara, Luganda, Acholi, Runyankole, Ateso)

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/Sunbird/translate-nllb-1.3b-salt

Fetch Timestamp

5 Jun 2026

Submitter

Akera, Benjamin et al. (Sunbird AI / Makerere University AI Lab)

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iso code: lgg
Model Name: Sunbird/translate-nllb-1.3b-salt
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/Sunbird/translate-nllb-1.3b-salt
Year: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Akera, Benjamin et al. (Sunbird AI / Makerere University AI Lab)
Paper Reference: Akera et al. (2022) — Machine Translation for African Languages: Community Creation of Datasets and Models in Uganda. AfricaNLP Workshop, ICLR 2022.
NLP Task: MT
Architecture: Encoder-Decoder (NLLB fine-tune)
Base Model: facebook/nllb-200-1.3B
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: CC-BY-4.0
Open Access: RestrictedderivedHugging Face: gated repository
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: MT (English ↔ Lugbara, Luganda, Acholi, Runyankole, Ateso)
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-06-05
Comment: Lugbara (lgg) is one of 5 Ugandan languages in the SALT MT model. Fine-tuned from NLLB-200-1.3B on the SALT parallel corpus. Also available as 4-bit (translate-…

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: sunbird-translate-nllb-1-3b-salt-lgg
Model Type: LLMderivedHugging Face card: pipeline_tag
Training Data Sources: SALT dataset + FLORES-200 + MT560 + LAFAND-MT + back-translated news
Benchmark Used: Not stated
Benchmark Score: Not stated
Benchmark Date: Not stated
Status: Activederivedupdated within 3 years