pytorch xlm-roberta fill-mask arxiv:2204.06487 transformers generated_from_trainer license:mit model-index autotrain_compatible
---
license: mit
tags:
- generated_from_trainer
model-index:
- name: afro-xlmr-large
  results: []
---


# afro-xlmr-large

AfroXLMR-large was created by MLM adaptation of XLM-R-large model on 17 African languages (Afrikaans, Amharic, Hausa, Igbo, Malagasy, Chichewa, Oromo, Naija, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Shona, Somali, Sesotho, Swahili, isiXhosa, Yoruba, and isiZulu) covering the major African language families and 3 high resource languages (Arabic, French, and English). 

## Eval results on MasakhaNER (F-score)
language| XLM-R-miniLM| XLM-R-base |XLM-R-large | afro-xlmr-large |  afro-xlmr-base | afro-xlmr-small | afro-xlmr-mini
-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-
amh |69.5|70.6|76.2|79.7|76.1|70.1|69.7
hau |74.5|89.5|90.5|91.4|91.2|91.4|87.7
ibo |81.9|84.8|84.1|87.7|87.4|86.6|83.5
kin |68.6|73.3|73.8|79.1|78.0|77.5|74.1
lug |64.7|79.7|81.6|86.7|82.9|83.2|77.4
luo |11.7|74.9|73.6|78.1|75.1|75.4|17.5
pcm |83.2|87.3|89.0|91.0|89.6|89.0|85.5
swa |86.3|87.4|89.4|90.4|88.6|88.7|86.0
wol |51.7|63.9|67.9|69.6|67.4|65.9|59.0
yor |72.0|78.3|78.9|85.2|82.1|81.3|75.1
avg |66.4|79.0|80.5|83.9|81.8|80.9|71.6


### BibTeX entry and citation info
```
@misc{afro_maft,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2204.06487},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06487},
  author = {Alabi, Jesujoba O. and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and Mosbach, Marius and Klakow, Dietrich},
  keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title = {Multilingual Language Model Adaptive Fine-Tuning: A Study on African Languages},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2022},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}

```


