Windy TranslateAfrikaans to Russian translation model translate-af-ru
Open machine translation from Afrikaans into Russian, published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.
- Task
- Translation: Afrikaans → Russian
- Languages
- Afrikaans af, Russian ru
- Lineage
- OPUS-MT
- Format
- transformers (Marian), safetensors in subfolder
lora/ - Hugging Face
- WindyTranslate/translate-af-ru
- Last updated on HF
- 2026-10-01
Quality
| Benchmark | chrF++ | BLEU | Band | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences | 33.79 | 9.38 | Usable | 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
- Op Maandag het wetenskaplikes vanaf die Stanford Universiteit Medieseskool aangekondig dat die uitvinding van …
- Reference
- В понедельник ученые из Медицинской школы Стэнфордского университета объявили об изобретении нового диагностич…
- This model
- В понедельник ученые из Станфордского медицинского университета объявили, что при изобретении „метической диаг
How to run
Shell
pip install transformers sentencepiece torchPython
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
# This repository keeps its weights in a subfolder.
repo, sub = "WindyTranslate/translate-af-ru", "lora"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(repo, subfolder=sub)
batch = tok(["<Afrikaans 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-af-de (subfolder "lora") with transformers 5.18.0 on CPU. Not run on every model individually.
Licence and attribution
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Upstream
- Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-ru
- Upstream licence
- Apache-2.0
- Attribution
- Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-ru 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-af-ru
(https://huggingface.co/WindyTranslate/translate-af-ru), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on OPUS-MT model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-af-ru 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Russian to Afrikaans translate-ru-af | 41.4 Usable | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to English translate-af-en | 64.4 Excellent | Apache-2.0 |
| English to Russian translate-en-ru | 52.4 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Ukrainian to Russian translate-uk-ru | 52.1 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Swedish translate-af-sv | 49.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to Dutch translate-af-nl | 47.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to French translate-af-fr | 47.2 Good | Apache-2.0 |
| Afrikaans to German translate-af-de | 46.5 Good | Apache-2.0 |