---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
base_model: facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B
library_name: peft
language:
- en
- ks
tags:
- translation
- machine-translation
- kashmiri
- nllb
- lora
- peft
pipeline_tag: translation
datasets:
- ai4bharat/BPCC
metrics:
- chrf
- bleu
---

# kāv: English to Kashmiri Machine Translation

A LoRA adapter fine-tuning `facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B` for English to Kashmiri
(Perso-Arabic script, `kas_Arab`) translation.

Full training methodology, data details, decoding configuration, and the
post-processing pipeline this adapter is meant to be used with are documented
in the companion GitHub repository:**[aym-n/kav](https://github.com/aym-n/kav)**

## Adapter details

- **Base model:** `facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B`
- **Method:** LoRA (PEFT), `r=32`, `alpha=64`, `dropout=0.05`
- **Target modules:** `q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, out_proj, fc1, fc2` (attention
  and feed-forward layers)
- **Source language:** `eng_Latn` — **Target language:** `kas_Arab`