Translation
Transformers
Safetensors
English
Burmese
m2m_100
text2text-generation
nllb
burmese
wikihow
low-resource
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# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper # Warning: Pipeline type "translation" is no longer supported in transformers v5. # You must load the model directly (see below) or downgrade to v4.x with: # 'pip install "transformers<5.0.0' from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("translation", model="PyaeSoneK/nllb-600m-wikihow-en-my")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("PyaeSoneK/nllb-600m-wikihow-en-my") model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("PyaeSoneK/nllb-600m-wikihow-en-my", device_map="auto") - Notebooks
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base_model: facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M
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datasets:
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- facebook/flores
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language:
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- en
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- my
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library_name: transformers
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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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metrics:
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- chrf
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- bleu
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pipeline_tag: translation
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tags:
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- translation
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- nllb
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- burmese
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- wikihow
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- low-resource
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model-index:
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- name: nllb-600m-wikihow-en-my
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results:
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- task:
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type: translation
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name: Machine Translation (English to Burmese)
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dataset:
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name: WikiHow-MY (held-out test, article-disjoint)
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type: custom
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split: test
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metrics:
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- type: chrf
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value: 41.64
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name: chrF++
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- type: bleu
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value: 23.18
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name: spBLEU
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- task:
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type: translation
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name: Machine Translation (English to Burmese)
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dataset:
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name: FLORES-200 (devtest, eng_Latn-mya_Mymr)
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type: facebook/flores
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config: eng_Latn-mya_Mymr
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split: devtest
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metrics:
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- type: chrf
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value: 33.5
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name: chrF++
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- type: bleu
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value: 17.78
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name: spBLEU
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---
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# NLLB-200-distilled-600M fine-tuned for English to Burmese (WikiHow-MY)
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This is [`facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M`](https://huggingface.co/facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M)
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fine-tuned for **English to Burmese (`eng_Latn` to `mya_Mymr`)** translation on an
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instructional-text corpus derived from wikiHow. It targets the procedural /
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how-to register, where the zero-shot NLLB baseline is weakest.
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## Model description
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- **Base model:** `facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M` (600M-param distilled NLLB-200)
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- **Architecture:** `M2M100ForConditionalGeneration` (seq2seq, SentencePiece tokenizer)
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- **Direction:** English (`eng_Latn`) to Burmese (`mya_Mymr`), single direction
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- **Fine-tuning data:** WikiHow-MY instructional EN to MY pairs (see Training data)
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- **Selection metric:** dev **chrF** (more stable than BLEU on unsegmented Burmese)
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## Intended uses & limitations
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**Intended use.** Translating English instructional / how-to text into Burmese
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(steps, tips, procedural prose). Research and non-commercial use only.
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**Out of scope / limitations.**
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- **Non-commercial only** β inherits CC-BY-NC-4.0 from NLLB-200 (see License).
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- Tuned on a single domain (wikiHow). Expect degradation on conversational,
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legal, medical, or other out-of-domain text.
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- Single direction (en to my). Do not use for my to en.
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- Burmese has no orthographic word boundaries; downstream metrics and any
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word-level processing must account for this. Reported BLEU is **spBLEU**
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(SentencePiece-tokenized) and the primary metric is **chrF++**.
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- May hallucinate, drop, or mistranslate named entities and numbers; not for
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high-stakes use without human review.
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## Training data
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Fine-tuned on **WikiHow-MY**, parallel English to Burmese instructional
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sentence pairs extracted from wikiHow articles. wikiHow content is licensed
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**CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0**; this derivative therefore carries a non-commercial,
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share-alike obligation in addition to NLLB's CC-BY-NC (see License & attribution).
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- Train / dev / test: **8,302 / 908 / 846** pairs (~10,056 total, from 82 articles)
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- **Article-disjoint** splits (seed 42): no article appears in more than one split,
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so the benchmark has no train/test leakage at the article level.
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- Preprocessing: Zawgyi-to-Unicode normalization, de-duplication, and
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sentence-level alignment of the English-Burmese instructional pairs.
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## Training procedure
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Fine-tuned with π€ Transformers `Seq2SeqTrainer`.
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| Hyperparameter | Value |
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| base model | facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M |
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| learning rate | 3e-5 |
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| warmup ratio | 0.05 |
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| epochs | up to 10 (early stop on dev chrF) |
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| per-device train batch | 4 |
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| grad accumulation | 8 (effective batch 32) |
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| precision | fp16 |
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| eval / save steps | 250 |
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| early-stopping patience | 4 |
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| max length | 256 |
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| seed | 42 |
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| beams (eval/inference) | 5 |
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## Evaluation results
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Evaluated on FLORES-200 devtest (`eng_Latn-mya_Mymr`) and the held-out
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WikiHow-MY test split. chrF++ and spBLEU computed with `sacrebleu`.
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| System / test set | chrF++ | spBLEU | BLEU |
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| **This model** β WikiHow-MY test | 41.64 | 23.18 | 3.74 |
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| Base NLLB zero-shot β WikiHow-MY | 36.01 | 19.33 | 2.62 |
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| **This model** β FLORES-200 devtest | 33.50 | 17.78 | 2.71 |
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| Base NLLB zero-shot β FLORES-200 | 29.17 | 14.79 | 2.19 |
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Fine-tuning on WikiHow improves the procedural in-domain test by **+5.6 chrF++**
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(36.01 to 41.64) and also lifts general-domain FLORES-200 by **+4.3 chrF++**
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(29.17 to 33.50) β i.e. domain adaptation with no catastrophic forgetting.
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chrF++ is the primary metric (segmentation-agnostic for unsegmented Burmese);
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spBLEU uses the FLORES-200 tokenizer. Numbers from
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`experiments/results/main_results.json`.
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## How to use
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```python
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from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
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model_id = "PyaeSoneK/nllb-600m-wikihow-en-my"
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tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, src_lang="eng_Latn")
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model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_id)
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text = "Fold the paper in half, then crease the edge firmly."
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inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
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# Force the decoder to start generating in Burmese.
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bos = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("mya_Mymr")
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generated = model.generate(
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**inputs,
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forced_bos_token_id=bos,
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num_beams=5,
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max_new_tokens=256,
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)
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print(tokenizer.batch_decode(generated, skip_special_tokens=True)[0])
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```
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Note: on recent `transformers`, prefer
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`tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("mya_Mymr")` over the deprecated
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`tokenizer.lang_code_to_id[...]`.
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## License & attribution
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This model is released under **CC-BY-NC-4.0**. Two upstream non-commercial
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terms apply and you must comply with both:
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1. **NLLB-200** (`facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M`) is **CC-BY-NC-4.0**. Any
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derivative β including this fine-tune β must remain non-commercial and
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attribute Meta AI / the NLLB Team.
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2. **wikiHow** training content is **CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0**: non-commercial **and
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share-alike**. Reuse of this model or its outputs must credit wikiHow and
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carry a compatible non-commercial license.
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Effective terms = the union of these: **non-commercial use only**, attribution
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to both NLLB and wikiHow, and share-alike where wikiHow-derived content is
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redistributed.
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## Citation
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```bibtex
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@misc{nllb600m_wikihow_en_my,
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title = {NLLB-200-distilled-600M fine-tuned for English-Burmese on WikiHow-MY},
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author = {Pyae Sone Kyaw},
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year = {2026},
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note = {Fine-tune of facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M, CC-BY-NC-4.0}
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}
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@article{nllb2022,
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title = {No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation},
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author = {{NLLB Team} and Costa-juss\`a, Marta R. and others},
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journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04672},
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year = {2022}
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}
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```
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