EthioLLM
EthioLLM is a family of multilingual language models (XLM-RoBERTa and mT5 based) for five Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Ge'ez, Afaan Oromoo, Somali and Tigrinya, plus English. The large variant EthioLLM-l-70K is a fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa-Large used for masked language modeling and downstream tasks like classification, NER and sentiment. It was released by the EthioNLP collective alongside the Ethiobenchmark evaluation suite.
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- 10 Oct 2026
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