AfriNLLB-8enc-8dec-middle-498m-ft

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",
}