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UBC-NLP/toucan-1.2B

Afar(aar)MTmT5Encoder-Decoder

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Model Info

Language

Afar (aar)

Architecture

Encoder-Decoder

Institution

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

Last Updated

11 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

MT for 150+ African language pairs including aar (larger variant)

License & Access

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Provenance

Source URL

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

Fetch Timestamp

11 May 2026

Submitter

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

Full Record

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iso code: aar
Model Name: UBC-NLP/toucan-1.2B
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/toucan-1.2B
Year: 2024
Creator/Author(s): Elmadany, Abdelrahim; Adebara, Ife; Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad (UBC-NLP)
Paper Reference: Elmadany et al. (2024) — Toucan: Many-to-Many Translation for 150 African Language Pairs. ACL 2024 Findings pp.13189-13206
NLP Task: MT
Architecture: Encoder-Decoder
Base Model: mT5
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: Unknown (contact info required)
Open Access: Restricted
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: MT for 150+ African language pairs including aar (larger variant)
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-11
Comment: 1.2B-parameter fine-tuned MT variant of Cheetah-1.2B. Significantly outperforms other MT models for African languages. Afar (aar) supported. Also available: tou…

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id: ubc-nlp-toucan-1-2b-aar
Model Type: LLM
Training Data Sources: AfroLingu-MT; multilingual African corpora
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

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