@InProceedings{yadav-chaudhary-kuila:2026:wmt,
  author    = {Yadav, Suyash  and  Chaudhary, Utkarsh  and  Kuila, Alapan},
  title     = {RozarNLP-cr7 at WMT 2026: LoRA-Fine-Tuned NLLB for Low-Resource Machine Translation in Northeastern Indian Languages},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation},
  month          = {October},
  year           = {2026},
  address        = {Budapest, Hungary},
  publisher      = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {2254--2261},
  abstract  = {We present constrained WMT 2026 submissions for low-resource Northeastern Indian languages using NLLB-200 Distilled 1.3B with multilingual LoRA adapters trained only on the official organizer-provided parallel data. The adapted systems improve over the submitted baselines for both Mizo directions and Bengali-script Manipuri→English, but show substantial variation across languages and directions. We further manually analyze approximately 100 Indic→English outputs and validate the systems on WMT 2025 data, highlighting generation artifacts and the challenges of parameter-efficient adaptation across languages, scripts, and translation directions.},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-1.165}
}