Toucan
VerifiedAn Afrocentric many-to-many machine translation model (1.2B params, mT5) fine-tuned from Cheetah to support 156 African language pairs, evaluated on the AfroLingu-MT benchmark. Developed by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and published at ACL 2024.
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- 🌍 Pan-African
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- 10 Oct 2026
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