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Kwangali to English translation model translate-kwn-en

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

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

Quality

Not yet scored. FLORES-200 has no test set for Kwangali → English, so this pair is outside the screening run.

How to run

Shell

pip install transformers sentencepiece torch

Python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

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

batch = tok(["<Kwangali 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-kwn-en
Upstream licence: Apache-2.0
Attribution: Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-kwn-en by Helsinki-NLP (Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki). Licensed Apache-2.0.

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NOTICE

This product uses the model WindyTranslate/translate-kwn-en
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-kwn-en), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-kwn-en 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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