Marcello Politi
2026
EVE: A Domain-Specific LLM Framework for Earth Intelligence
Àlex R. Atrio | Antonio Lopez | Jino Rohit | Yassine El Ouahidi | Marcello Politi | Vijayasri Iyer | Umar Jamil | Sébastien Bratières | Nicolas Longépé
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Àlex R. Atrio | Antonio Lopez | Jino Rohit | Yassine El Ouahidi | Marcello Politi | Vijayasri Iyer | Umar Jamil | Sébastien Bratières | Nicolas Longépé
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
We introduce Earth Virtual Expert (EVE), the first open-source, end-to-end initiative for developing and deploying domain-specialized LLMs for Earth Intelligence. At its core is EVE-Instruct, a domain-adapted 24B model built on Mistral Small 3.2 and optimized for reasoning and question answering. On newly constructed Earth Observation and Earth Sciences benchmarks, it outperforms comparable models while preserving general capabilities.We release curated training corpora and the first systematic domain-specific evaluation benchmarks, covering MCQA, open-ended QA, and factuality. EVE further integrates RAG and a hallucination-detection pipeline into a production system deployed via API and GUI, supporting 350 pilot users. All models, datasets, and code are publicly available.