READ.me.md

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title: Swahili Chat Assistant
emoji: 🇹🇿
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.0.0
app_file: app.py
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Swahili Chat Assistant 🤖

A dual-interface chat assistant featuring:

• Kiswahili Learning Assistant: RAG-powered specialized Swahili education
• General Conversation Assistant: Open-ended chat using fine-tuned Swahili Gemma model

Model Used

This app uses my fine-tuned Swahili Gemma model: BrianGithaiga/swahili-gemma-finetuned

Features

• 🎓 Educational RAG system for Swahili learning
• 💬 General conversation in Swahili
• 🚀 Fast inference with optimized tokenizer
• 📱 Responsive Gradio interface

Usage

1. Left Side: Ask questions about Swahili literature, grammar, and culture
2. Right Side: Have general conversations in Swahili

Technical Details

• Base Model: CraneAILabs/swahili-gemma-1b
• Fine-tuned: BrianGithaiga/swahili-gemma-finetuned
• Framework: Transformers + Gradio
• Hosting: Hugging Face Spaces

License

Apache-2.0 License

Model Performance

• Validation Loss: 1.3800
• Perplexity: 3.97
• Optimized for Swahili conversation