README.md

---
license: mit
tags:
- generated_from_trainer
model-index:
- name: afro-xlmr-large-61L
  results: []
language:
- en
- am
- ar
- so
- sw
- pt
- af
- fr
- zu
- mg
- ha
- sn
- arz
- ny
- ig
- xh
- yo
- st
- rw
- tn
- ti
- ts
- om
- run
- nso
- ee
- ln
- tw
- pcm
- gaa
- loz
- lg
- guw
- bem
- efi
- lue
- lua
- toi
- ve
- tum
- tll
- iso
- kqn
- zne
- umb
- mos
- tiv
- lu
- ff
- kwy
- bci
- rnd
- luo
- wal
- ss
- lun
- wo
- nyk
- kj
- ki
- fon
---


# afro-xlmr-large-61L

AfroXLMR-large was created by MLM adaptation of XLM-R-large model on 61 languages widely spoken in Africa
including 4 high-resource languages. 

### Pre-training corpus
A mix of mC4, Wikipedia and OPUS data

### Languages

There are 61 languages available :
- English (eng)
- Amharic (amh)
- Arabic (ara) 
- Somali (som)
- Kiswahili (swa)
- Portuguese (por)
- Afrikaans (afr)
- French (fra)
- isiZulu (zul)
- Malagasy (mlg)
- Hausa (hau)
- chiShona (sna)
- Egyptian Arabic (arz)
- Chichewa (nya)
- Igbo (ibo)
- isiXhosa (xho)
- Yorùbá (yor)
- Sesotho (sot)
- Kinyarwanda (kin)
- Tigrinya (tir)
- Tsonga (tso)
- Oromo (orm)
- Rundi (run)
- Northern Sotho (nso)
- Ewe (ewe)
- Lingala (lin)
- Twi (twi)
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
- Ga (gaa)
- Lozi (loz)
- Luganda (lug)
- Gun (guw)
- Bemba (bem)
- Efik (efi)
- Luvale (lue) 
- Luba-Lulua (lua)
- Tonga (toi)
- Tshivenḓa (ven)
- Tumbuka (tum)
- Tetela (tll)
- Isoko (iso)
- Kaonde (kqn)
- Zande (zne)
- Umbundu (umb)
- Mossi (mos)
- Tiv (tiv)
- Luba-Katanga (lub)
- Fula (fuv)
- San Salvador Kongo (kwy)
- Baoulé (bci)
- Ruund (rnd)
- Luo (luo)
- Wolaitta (wal) 
- Swazi (ssw)
- Lunda (lun)
- Wolof (wol)
- Nyaneka (nyk) 
- Kwanyama (kua)
- Kikuyu (kik)
- Fon (fon)


### Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Google Cloud for providing us access to TPU v3-8 through the free cloud credits. Model trained using flax, before converted to pytorch.


### BibTeX entry and citation info.
```
@misc{adelani2023sib200,
      title={SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects}, 
      author={David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Hannah Liu and Xiaoyu Shen and Nikita Vassilyev and Jesujoba O. Alabi and Yanke Mao and Haonan Gao and Annie En-Shiun Lee},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2309.07445},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

```