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Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) vs MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)

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Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG)MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, hausa, machine-translation, multimodal, image-captioning
nlp, african-languages, news, machine-translation, parquet
Links
Website Docs
Website Docs GitHub
Summary
Multimodal Hausa-English dataset of 32,923 images with paired English/Hausa region descriptions (train/dev/test/challenge splits), post-edited by HausaNLP and Bayero University Kano translators for English-to-Hausa machine translation and image description.
Largest news-domain machine translation benchmark for African languages, covering 21 languages with English or French as source. It contains 142,909 parallel sentences in parquet with train, dev and test splits, hosted on HuggingFace. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) vs MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) at a glance

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) are both listed under Language / NLP in Wycord's Datasets index.

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) is based in Nigeria and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) in Pan-African.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) (36 checks) and 100% for MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 233 ms for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and 160 ms for MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand).

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0).
  • Country: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Nigeria; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Pan-African.
  • Verification: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Verified; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Unverified.
  • Average latency: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), 233 ms; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), 160 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp, machine-translation.

Only Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG): hausa, multimodal, image-captioning.

Only MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand): african-languages, news, parquet.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) or MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) or MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) based?
Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) is based in Nigeria; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) is based in Pan-African.

More comparisons

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