---
language:
- multilingual
- ar
- cs
- de
- en
- es
- et
- fi
- fr
- gu
- hi
- it
- ja
- kk
- ko
- lt
- lv
- my
- ne
- nl
- ro
- ru
- si
- tr
- vi
- zh
- af
- az
- bn
- fa
- he
- hr
- id
- ka
- km
- mk
- ml
- mn
- mr
- pl
- ps
- pt
- sv
- sw
- ta
- te
- th
- tl
- uk
- ur
- xh
- gl
- sl
tags:
- mbart-50
pipeline_tag: translation
---

# mBART-50 many to many multilingual machine translation


This model is a fine-tuned checkpoint of [mBART-large-50](https://huggingface.co/facebook/mbart-large-50). `mbart-large-50-many-to-many-mmt` is fine-tuned for multilingual machine translation. It was introduced in [Multilingual Translation with Extensible Multilingual Pretraining and Finetuning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00401) paper.


The model can translate directly between any pair of 50 languages. To translate into a target language, the target language id is forced as the first generated token. To force the target language id as the first generated token, pass the `forced_bos_token_id` parameter to the `generate` method.


```python
from transformers import MBartForConditionalGeneration, MBart50TokenizerFast

article_hi = "संयुक्त राष्ट्र के प्रमुख का कहना है कि सीरिया में कोई सैन्य समाधान नहीं है"
article_ar = "الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة يقول إنه لا يوجد حل عسكري في سوريا."

model = MBartForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("facebook/mbart-large-50-many-to-many-mmt")
tokenizer = MBart50TokenizerFast.from_pretrained("facebook/mbart-large-50-many-to-many-mmt")

# translate Hindi to French
tokenizer.src_lang = "hi_IN"
encoded_hi = tokenizer(article_hi, return_tensors="pt")
generated_tokens = model.generate(
    **encoded_hi,
    forced_bos_token_id=tokenizer.lang_code_to_id["fr_XX"]
)
tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
# => "Le chef de l 'ONU affirme qu 'il n 'y a pas de solution militaire dans la Syrie."

# translate Arabic to English
tokenizer.src_lang = "ar_AR"
encoded_ar = tokenizer(article_ar, return_tensors="pt")
generated_tokens = model.generate(
    **encoded_ar,
    forced_bos_token_id=tokenizer.lang_code_to_id["en_XX"]
)
tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
# => "The Secretary-General of the United Nations says there is no military solution in Syria."
```


See the [model hub](https://huggingface.co/models?filter=mbart-50) to look for more fine-tuned versions.


## Languages covered
Arabic (ar_AR), Czech (cs_CZ), German (de_DE), English (en_XX), Spanish (es_XX), Estonian (et_EE), Finnish (fi_FI), French (fr_XX), Gujarati (gu_IN), Hindi (hi_IN), Italian (it_IT), Japanese (ja_XX), Kazakh (kk_KZ), Korean (ko_KR), Lithuanian (lt_LT), Latvian (lv_LV), Burmese (my_MM), Nepali (ne_NP), Dutch (nl_XX), Romanian (ro_RO), Russian (ru_RU), Sinhala (si_LK), Turkish (tr_TR), Vietnamese (vi_VN), Chinese (zh_CN), Afrikaans (af_ZA), Azerbaijani (az_AZ), Bengali (bn_IN), Persian (fa_IR), Hebrew (he_IL), Croatian (hr_HR), Indonesian (id_ID), Georgian (ka_GE), Khmer (km_KH), Macedonian (mk_MK), Malayalam (ml_IN), Mongolian (mn_MN), Marathi (mr_IN), Polish (pl_PL), Pashto (ps_AF), Portuguese (pt_XX), Swedish (sv_SE), Swahili (sw_KE), Tamil (ta_IN), Telugu (te_IN), Thai (th_TH), Tagalog (tl_XX), Ukrainian (uk_UA), Urdu (ur_PK), Xhosa (xh_ZA), Galician (gl_ES), Slovene (sl_SI)


## BibTeX entry and citation info
```
@article{tang2020multilingual,
    title={Multilingual Translation with Extensible Multilingual Pretraining and Finetuning},
    author={Yuqing Tang and Chau Tran and Xian Li and Peng-Jen Chen and Naman Goyal and Vishrav Chaudhary and Jiatao Gu and Angela Fan},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2008.00401},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```