twigane-en-kin-translation

Twigane English to Kinyarwanda Translation

Model Description

This is an English to Kinyarwanda translation model fine-tuned from the NLLB (No Language Left Behind) model family. It's specifically optimized for translating English text to Kinyarwanda with high accuracy and cultural appropriateness.

Model Details

• Model Type: Sequence-to-Sequence Translation
• Languages: English (en) → Kinyarwanda (rw)
• Base Model: mbazaNLP/Nllb_finetuned_general_en_kin
• Fine-tuning: Custom Kinyarwanda dataset
• Architecture: Transformer-based NLLB

Usage

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Maxime-Bakunzi/twigane-en-kin-translation")
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("Maxime-Bakunzi/twigane-en-kin-translation")

def translate_en_to_rw(text):
    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=512)
    outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_length=512, num_beams=4, early_stopping=True)
    translation = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
    return translation

# Example usage
english_text = "Hello, how are you today?"
kinyarwanda_translation = translate_en_to_rw(english_text)
print(kinyarwanda_translation)  # Expected: "Muraho, amakuru yawe?"

Performance

• BLEU Score: ~0.67 on test dataset
• Training Data: Custom English-Kinyarwanda parallel corpus
• Optimization: Fine-tuned for cultural context and natural language flow

Applications

• Educational language learning platforms
• Translation services for English-Kinyarwanda content
• Cultural content localization
• Communication assistance tools

Limitations

• Optimized specifically for English to Kinyarwanda translation
• Performance may vary with very technical or domain-specific content
• Best results with standard conversational and educational content

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

@misc{twigane-translation-model,
  author = {Twigane Project},
  title = {English to Kinyarwanda Translation Model},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/Maxime-Bakunzi/twigane-en-kin-translation}
}