Windy TranslateArabic to Italian translation model translate-ar-it
Open machine translation from Arabic into Italian, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: Arabic → Italian
- Languages
- Arabic ar, Italian it
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-ar-it
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-07-30
Quality
Not yet scored. FLORES-200 has no test set for Arabic → Italian, so this pair is outside the screening run.
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-ar-it"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
batch = tok(["<Arabic text>"], return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
print(tok.batch_decode(model.generate(**batch), skip_special_tokens=True)[0])Tested: Pattern run on 2026-10-01 against WindyTranslate/translate-tc-big-en-fr with transformers 4.57.6 and 5.18.0 on CPU ("Où se trouve la gare ?"); multi-target token prefix run against translate-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_nld. Not run on every model individually.
Licence and attribution
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Upstream
- Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ar-it
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ar-it by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Copy this into your NOTICE file (or equivalent) when you ship the model:
NOTICE
This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-ar-it
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-ar-it), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ar-it by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.
Windstorm Labs modified the upstream weights; the model card describes what was changed.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.
Related models
| Model | chrF++ (FLORES-200 dev) | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Italian to Arabic translate-it-ar | not in FLORES-200 | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Italian translate-tc-big-en-it | 56.4 Good | CC-BY-4.0 |
| English to Italian translate-en-it | 54.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| German to Italian translate-de-it | 52.3 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Spanish to Italian translate-es-it | 48.8 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Catalan to Italian translate-ca-it | 47.1 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Bulgarian to Italian translate-bg-it | 46.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Italian translate-fi-it | 45.0 Good | Apache-2.0 |