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UBC-NLP/cheetah-1.2B

Afar(aar)LMT5Encoder-Decoder

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Model Info

Language

Afar (aar)

Architecture

Encoder-Decoder

Institution

Adebara, Ife; Elmadany, Abdelrahim; Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad (UBC-NLP)

Last Updated

11 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

NLG for 517 African languages including aar

License & Access

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Provenance

Source URL

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

Fetch Timestamp

11 May 2026

Submitter

Adebara, Ife; Elmadany, Abdelrahim; Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad (UBC-NLP)

Full Record

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iso code: aar
Model Name: UBC-NLP/cheetah-1.2B
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/cheetah-1.2B
Year: 2024
Creator/Author(s): Adebara, Ife; Elmadany, Abdelrahim; Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad (UBC-NLP)
Paper Reference: Adebara et al. (2024) — Cheetah: Natural Language Generation for 517 African Languages. ACL 2024
NLP Task: LM
Architecture: Encoder-Decoder
Base Model: T5
Fine-tuned?: No
License: Unknown (contact info required)
Open Access: Restricted
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: NLG for 517 African languages including aar
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-11
Comment: 1.2B-parameter Afrocentric sequence-to-sequence pretrained LM covering 517 African languages. Afar (aar) included. Trained on 42G corpus from 50 of 54 African c…

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: ubc-nlp-cheetah-1-2b-aar
Model Type: LLM
Training Data Sources: 42G multi-domain corpus across 517 African languages
Benchmark Used: Not stated
Benchmark Score: Not stated
Benchmark Date: Not stated
Status: Activederivedupdated within 3 years

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage100%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation80%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

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Dialect Coverage

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