burkimbia/BIA-MISTRAL-7B-SACHI

BIA-MISTRAL-SACHI: French↔Moore Translation Model

Model Description

BIA-MISTRAL-SACHI is a fine-tuned Mistral-Instruct model for high-quality machine translation between French and Moore (Mooré), a major language of Burkina Faso. This model leverages the Mistral architecture and instruction tuning for accurate, context-aware translation in both directions.

Language Information

• Languages: French (fra), Moore (mos)
• Region: Burkina Faso, West Africa
• Moore Speakers: ~5 million native speakers
• Language Family: Niger-Congo → Gur → Oti-Volta → Moore

Usage

from inference.translators.mistral import MistralTranslator, Mistral

translator = MistralTranslator("burkimbia/BIA-MISTRAL-SACHI")
# Or simply:
mistral = Mistral("burkimbia/BIA-MISTRAL-SACHI")

# Translate French to Moore
translated = mistral.translate(
  text="Bonjour, comment allez-vous?",
  src_lang="fra_Latn",
  tgt_lang="moor_Latn"
)
print(translated)

# Translate Moore to French
translated = mistral.translate(
  text="Laafi bala?",
  src_lang="moor_Latn",
  tgt_lang="fra_Latn"
)
print(translated)

Model Details

• Base Model: Mistral-Instruct
• Fine-tuning Data: Parallel French↔Moore corpus
• Training Steps: 10,000+ steps
• Hardware: GPU-accelerated
• Special Features: Instruction-based prompting, supports both translation directions

Training

Citation

If you use this model in your research, please cite:

@misc{bia-mistral-sachi,
  title={BIA-MISTRAL-SACHI: French↔Moore Translation Model},
  author={Salif SAWADOGO at Burkimbia},
  year={2025},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/burkimbia/BIA-MISTRAL-SACHI}}
}

Acknowledgments

• Mistral AI for the base model