Open models for Swahili
Swahili-gemma-1B-it
- Base:
- 1B Gemma 3
- Language:
- Swahili
- License:
- Gemma terms
- Direction:
- en → sw
- BLEU:
- 28.86
- Trained:
- 26.09M params
- Swahili
- Translation
- Open Model
Swahili-nllb-1.3B
- Base:
- 1.37B NLLB-200
- Language:
- Swahili
- License:
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Direction:
- en → sw
- BLEU:
- 38.74
- Trained:
- 23.6M params
- Swahili
- Translation
- Open Model
Swahili-nllb-600M
- Base:
- 615M NLLB-200
- Language:
- Swahili
- License:
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Direction:
- en → sw
- BLEU:
- 35.97
- Trained:
- 8.65M params
- Swahili
- Translation
- Open Model
Datasets for Swahili
Sunbird SALT
Parallel · Hugging FaceA multilingual parallel corpus covering locally relevant topics across Ugandan languages and Swahili, supporting translation model development.
View DatasetMAFAND-MT (en-swa)
Parallel · GitHubHuman-translated news-domain parallel data supporting English–Swahili machine translation.
View DatasetEnglish–Swahili Sentence Pairs
Parallel · Hugging FaceGeneral-domain parallel sentences supporting English-to-Swahili translation training.
View DatasetInkuba-Swahili-MMT
Parallel · Hugging FaceMultilingual parallel data prepared for English-to-Swahili translation fine-tuning.
View DatasetAya Dataset (Swahili)
Instruction · Hugging FaceHuman-annotated Swahili instruction data supporting multilingual instruction-following.
View DatasetAlpaca-Cleaned (Swahili)
Instruction · Hugging FaceSwahili instruction-tuning data adapted from the cleaned Alpaca dataset.
View DatasetKenSwQuAD
Question Answering · Hugging FaceSwahili question-answering data drawn from Kenyan news content.
View DatasetJamiiForums-2B
Monolingual · Hugging FaceA large Swahili text corpus supporting continued pretraining and language adaptation.
View DatasetInkuba-Mono (Swahili)
Monolingual · Hugging FaceMonolingual Swahili text supporting continued pretraining and language modelling.
View DatasetFLORES+
Evaluation · Hugging FaceA multilingual evaluation benchmark for measuring translation quality using standardised metrics.
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