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Urdu to English translation model translate-ur-en

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

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

Quality

BenchmarkchrF++BLEUBandMeasured
FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences30.606.04Usable2026-08-04

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
پیر کے روز، سٹینفورڈ اسکول آف میڈیسن کے سائنسدانوں نے ایک جدید تشخیصی آلہ دریافت کرنے کا اعلان کیا ہے جو خلیوں…
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How to run

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

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

batch = tok(["<Urdu 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-ur-en
Upstream licence
Apache-2.0
Attribution
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ur-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-ur-en
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-ur-en), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ur-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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