An int8 CTranslate2 conversion of Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-poz-en (Malayo-Polynesian → English, transformer-big, OPUS-MT / Tatoeba-Challenge release 2024-08-17; covers Indonesian, Malay and related languages).

Converted with:

ct2-transformers-converter (TransformersConverter, quantization="int8",
                            copy_files=["source.spm", "target.spm"])

FLORES-200 devtest, id→en, 300 sentences, CPU: chrF2 69.3 at beam 1 (69.9 at beam 4). The original fp32 model reports chrF 0.684 on flores200-devtest, so int8 quantization is essentially loss-free.

Original model by the Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki (OPUS-MT project), released under Apache-2.0. This repository redistributes a quantized conversion of those weights under the same license. Please cite the OPUS-MT and Tatoeba Translation Challenge papers.