About Model
Bhashini - IndicTrans2 is the first open-source transformer-based multilingual NMT model that supports high-quality translations across all the 22 scheduled Indic languages — including multiple scripts for low-resouce languages like Kashmiri, Manipuri and Sindhi. It adopts script unification wherever feasible to leverage transfer learning by lexical sharing between languages. Overall, the model supports five scripts Perso-Arabic (Kashmiri, Sindhi, Urdu), Ol Chiki (Santali), Meitei (Manipuri), Latin (English), and Devanagari (used for all the remaining languages).
We open-souce all our training dataset (BPCC), back-translation data (BPCC-BT), final IndicTrans2 models, evaluation benchmarks (IN22, which includes IN22-Gen and IN22-Conv) and training and inference scripts for easier use and adoption within the research community. We hope that this will foster even more research in low-resource Indic languages, leading to further improvements in the quality of low-resource translation through contributions from the research community.
This code repository contains instructions for downloading the artifacts associated with IndicTrans2, as well as the code for training/fine-tuning the multilingual NMT models.
For more details about the use of model, refer to github: https://github.com/AI4Bharat/IndicTrans2/tree/main