English → Hausa Translation Model (localenlp-eng-hau-0.01)

This model is a fine-tuned version of Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en for translating **English (eng) to Hausa (hau) **. It was trained on 16,000 parallel sentence pairs and achieves strong performance on held-out test sets.

Developed and maintained by LocaleNLP — advancing African language technologies.

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Metrics

BLEU Score: 35.08

chrF Score: 57.95

Limitations and Bias

Data Limitations: Training data of 15k sentences may not cover all hausa dialects and domains

Bias Potential: May reflect biases present in the training data

Format Sensitivity: Performance may vary with input formatting and punctuation

Domain Adaptation: Best performance on text similar to training data

Model Card Authors

[Mgolo/LocaleNLP]

Framework Versions

Transformers 4.30.0

PyTorch 2.0.0+

Tokenizers 0.13.3

🚀 Model Inference

You can use this model for inference in multiple ways:

1. 🧠 Hugging Face Inference API (Serverless Endpoint)

Simply go to the model page on Hugging Face and use the “Hosted Inference API” widget. No setup required.