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English to Umbundu translation model translate-en-umb

Open machine translation from English into Umbundu, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.

Task
Translation: English → Umbundu
Languages
English en, Umbundu umb
Lineage
OPUS-MT
Format
transformers (Marian), safetensors
Hugging Face
WindyTranslate/translate-en-umb
Last updated on HF
2026-08-04

Quality

BenchmarkchrF++BLEUBandMeasured
FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences21.160.67Limited2026-08-04

A screening score on 48 sentences, not a publication result. Bands: Excellent ≥ 60, Good 45–60, Usable 30–45, Limited 15–30, Not recommended < 15. Method and caveats.

Recorded output (sentence 1, first 110 characters)

Source
On Monday, scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced the invention of a new diagnos…
Reference
K’eteke lyavali lyosemana, olonoño viosikola yavelapo yesaku yo Stanford vasapula etungo lyocina cimwe cikwati…
This model
Keteke likuavo, olonoño vio Kosikola ya velapo yo Gileada, via sandeka omakina yokaliye yi tukuiwa hati, omaki

How to run

Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torch
Python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-en-umb"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)

batch = tok(["Where is the train station?"], 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-en-umb
Upstream licence
Apache-2.0
Attribution
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-umb 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-en-umb
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-en-umb), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-umb 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-2.0

This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.

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