GeoLLM-Qwen3.5-9B

Fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B for mineral exploration geology, targeting the Western Australian geological domain.

This model is part of the GeoLLM-Qwen3.5-FineTune benchmark. All five model sizes (0.8B--27B) were trained with identical hyperparameters on the same dataset for fair comparison.

Performance

Metric	Base	Fine-tuned
Overall weighted score	0.351	0.343
QA ROUGE-L	0.1366	0.1947
QA BERTScore	0.8192	0.8525
CoT ROUGE-L	0.1250	0.2064
Hallucination pass rate	73.3%	20.0%
Training loss	--	1.172

See the full benchmark comparison for all models.

Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("AshkanTaghipour/GeoLLM-Qwen3.5-9B", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("AshkanTaghipour/GeoLLM-Qwen3.5-9B")

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a specialist geologist with expertise in Western Australian mineral exploration."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "What geophysical methods would you recommend for targeting komatiite-hosted nickel sulphide deposits in the Eastern Goldfields?"},
]

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, enable_thinking=False)
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=512, temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))

Training Details

• Method: bf16 LoRA (r=16, alpha=16) via Unsloth + SFTTrainer
• Epochs: 5
• Optimizer: adamw_8bit, cosine LR schedule (2e-4, 10% warmup)
• Dataset: mineral-exploration-geology-qa (479 train, 26 test examples)
• Hardware: NVIDIA A100-80GB
• VRAM (training): 22 GB
• VRAM (inference): ~19 GB

Author

Ashkan Taghipour -- GitHub | HuggingFace