AfriNLP/AfriNLLB-12enc-8dec-middle-548m-ft
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AfriNLLB
AfriNLLB is a series of efficient multilingual open-source models for African languages.
Model Description
This model is created using middle layer pruning. We recommend using the models created with iterative layer pruning. Please refer to the paper for more details.
Citation
If you use any of AfriNLLB models, datasets, or approaches, please cite the following paper:
@inproceedings{moslem-etal-2026-afrinllb,
title = "{A}fri{NLLB}: Efficient Translation Models for African Languages",
author = "Moslem, Yasmin and
Wassie, Aman Kassahun and
Gizachew, Amanuel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP)",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://openreview.net/forum?id=hVJZNUZBur",
}