AfriScience-MT

These models have moved. The AfriScience-MT translation models are now hosted by the dsfsi organization.

👉 Browse them all in the collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/dsfsi/afriscience-mt-6a2136f66dafdf67456103b4

AfriScience-MT is a project on machine translation of scientific literature for African languages — Amharic, Hausa, Luganda, Northern Sotho, Yorùbá and isiZulu.

Old AfriScience-MT/<model> links automatically redirect to their new dsfsi/<model> home.

Citation

If you use these models or the dataset, please cite (arXiv:2605.29741):

@article{abdulmumin2026afriscience,
  title   = {AfriScience-MT: Towards Decolonizing Science in Africa through Text Translation},
  author  = {Abdulmumin, Idris and Gwadabe, Tajuddeen and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and Khalo, Nomonde and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Modupe, Abiodun and Mumm, Anina and Biyela, Sibusiso and Rabie, Michelle and Havemann, Johanna and Rei, Marek and Abbott, Jade and Marivate, Vukosi},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29741},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29741}
}