Hy-MT2-1.8B for WMT26: Staged Multilingual Adaptation for Chinese–Southeast Asian Translation
We describe a training and evaluation pipeline for Hy-MT2-1.8B in the WMT26 Chinese– Southeast Asian multilingual machine translation task. The system uses one instruction-following model for fourteen directions be-tween Chinese and Indonesian, Thai, Khmer, Malay, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Lao. Our pipeline separates th...