translate-windy-hplt-ml-en — ml to en

Bilingual machine translation in CTranslate2 INT8 for fast CPU inference. Fine-tuned by Windstorm Labs from HPLT/translate-ml-en-v2.0-hplt_opus.

Attribution

Derived from HPLT/translate-ml-en-v2.0-hplt_opus, from the HPLT project, licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Modified by Windstorm Labs. Attribution is retained as the licence requires.

What we did

Converted from the upstream Marian release, LoRA fine-tuned on parallel data for this language pair, merged into the base weights, then quantized to INT8.

Rank / alpha	8 / 16
Learning rate / steps	2.5e-06 / 50
Target modules	q_proj, v_proj
Seed	42
Training data	opus100_ml-en (clinic cache), 2,000 sentence pairs
Tensors modified	36

Provenance

base model.bin  sha256  209fdd59fbc7640eaec019d172f0d0a7c5b4f1923b02fd9905b33d31309c0185
this model.bin  sha256  116e488fa84df1ac8124b0bc7f556c46b4b9b487365f0c9a56505475086ffa06

Verified after INT8 quantization, on the published artifact.

Evaluation

FLORES-200 devtest, 200 sentences, beam 4, CTranslate2 INT8 on CPU.

	spBLEU	chrF
this model	28.97	55.08

Notes

• Single language pair: ml to en.
• FLORES-200 is news and encyclopedic prose.
• No human evaluation was performed.