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Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Elinor Benami, Mike Cecil, Anna Josephson, Gina Maskell, Jeffrey D. Michler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05108

Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Integrating gridded weather and earth observation data into impact evaluations holds great promise. It allows researchers to capture environmental context, external shocks, and even to measure outcomes (e.g., land cover change, agricultural production) that surveys might miss due to spatial or temporal data collection constraints. However, with great power comes great responsibility: the increasing ease of extracting time series from these datasets belies potentially complex geospatial and meas…

From SALAMANDRA to SALAMANDRATA: BSC Submission for WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task
Javier Garcia Gilabert, Xixian Liao, Severino Da Dalt, Ella Bohman, Audrey Mash, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Irene Baucells, Joan Llop, Miguel Claramunt Argote, Carlos Escolano, Maite Melero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12774

From SALAMANDRA to SALAMANDRATA: BSC Submission for WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task
In this paper, we present the SALAMANDRATA family of models, an improved iteration of SALAMANDRA LLMs (Gonzalez-Agirre et al., 2025) specifically trained to achieve strong performance in translation-related tasks for 38 European languages. SALAMANDRATA comes in two scales: 2B and 7B parameters. For both versions, we applied the same training recipe with a first step of continual pre-training on parallel data, and a second step of supervised fine-tuning on high-quality instructions. The BSC subm…