Finnish to Bemba translation model translate-fi-bem
Open machine translation from Finnish into Bemba, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: Finnish → Bemba
- Languages
- Finnish fi, Bemba bem
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors
- Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-fi-bem
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-08-04
Quality
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences | 25.64 | 1.50 | Limited | 2026-08-04 |
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
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- Reference
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- This model
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How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
repo = "WindyTranslate/translate-fi-bem"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo)
batch = tok(["<Finnish 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-fi-bem
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fi-bem 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-fi-bem
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-fi-bem), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fi-bem 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bemba to Finnish translate-bem-fi | 23.4 Limited | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to English translate-tc-big-fi-en | 62.3 Excellent | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Finnish to English translate-fi-en | 56.3 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to French translate-fi-fr | 52.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Swedish translate-fi-sv | 51.6 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Indonesian translate-fi-id | 47.0 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Spanish translate-fi-es | 46.8 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Finnish to Hungarian translate-fi-hu | 46.8 Good | Apache-2.0 |