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AfriTeVa V2 vs AfroXLMR
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
NLP Model
NLP Model
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open weights
Not listed
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, t5, text-to-text, wura-corpus
nlp, multilingual, african-languages, masked-language-model, xlm-roberta
Summary
An improved T5 v1.1 model (428M params) pretrained on the Wura corpus covering 16 African languages, with gains on classification, translation, summarization and cross-lingual QA. Published at EMNLP 2023 by the Castorini group with African lead authors.
AfroXLMR is an XLM-R-large model (0.6B params) adapted to African languages via multilingual adaptive fine-tuning, covering 17 African languages plus Arabic, French, and English. Created by David Adelani (Davlan) and published at COLING 2022 for cross-lingual transfer tasks like NER.