SabiYarn-125M
SabiYarn-125M is a 125M-parameter decoder-only foundation model pretrained on Nigerian-language text, the first in the SabiYarn series. It supports English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin plus Fulfulde, Efik and Urhobo, with fine-tuned variants for translation, NER, sentiment and diacritization. It was built by Aletheia.ai Research Lab and presented at the AfricaNLP 2025 workshop.
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- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
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- 10 Jul 2026
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