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toucan-1.2B

Lugbara(lgg)text-generationMT5ForConditionalGeneration

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Model Info

Language

Lugbara (lgg)

Architecture

MT5ForConditionalGeneration

Institution

UBC-NLP

Last Updated

27 Oct 2026

Intended Use Cases

text-generation

License & Access

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Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/toucan-1.2B

Fetch Timestamp

27 Oct 2026

Submitter

UBC-NLP

Full Record

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Registry columns (11/18)

iso code: lgg
Model Name: toucan-1.2B
Where is it hosted: Hugging Face
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/toucan-1.2B
Year: 2024
Creator/Author(s): UBC-NLP
Paper Reference: Not stated
NLP Task: text-generation
Architecture: MT5ForConditionalGenerationderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type
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) (3/7)

model id: toucan-1-2b-lgg
Model Type: LLM
Training Data Sources: Not stated
Benchmark Used: Not stated
Benchmark Score: Not stated
Benchmark Date: Not stated
Status: Activederivedupdated within 3 years

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage94%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation77%

Recency100%

Representativeness

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Dialect Coverage

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