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Fine-tuning LLM

LLM fine-tuning for enterprise

Customize language models to speak like your brand, understand your domain, and solve your specific tasks with superior accuracy. Efficient fine-tuning with LoRA/QLoRA, rigorous evaluation, and cost-optimized deployment.

When to fine-tune

Fine-tuning vs RAG vs Prompting: when to use each

Not everything requires fine-tuning. Sometimes good prompt engineering or a RAG system is enough. But when you need the model to adopt a specific style, master technical vocabulary, or perform tasks it cannot learn from context alone, fine-tuning is the answer. We help you choose the right strategy.

Prompt Engineering

Ideal when the task is generic and the base model already has the necessary knowledge.

  • General writing tasks
  • Text analysis and summarization
  • Minimal cost, immediate results

RAG

Ideal when you need answers based on specific information that changes frequently.

  • Internal documentation/products
  • Data that updates often
  • Need to cite sources

Fine-tuning

Ideal when you need to change the model's behavior, style, or capabilities.

  • Specific brand tone/style
  • Consistent output format
  • Specialized domain tasks
The process

Efficient and safe fine-tuning for production

Fine-tuning adapts a pre-trained model to your specific domain using your data. With modern techniques like LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) and QLoRA, we can customize models with billions of parameters at a fraction of the full training computational cost -- without losing the base model's general capabilities.

Data preparation is the most critical phase: we need high-quality examples that represent exactly the behavior you want from the model. This includes input/output pairs for instruction tasks, example conversations for chatbots, texts in the desired style for content generation, or labeled examples for classification tasks. The quality of these data directly determines the quality of the resulting model.

We evaluate the fine-tuned model with quantitative metrics (perplexity, accuracy on specific benchmarks) and qualitative assessments (human evaluation of outputs). We compare against the base model and against RAG to ensure fine-tuning provides real value before deploying to production.

For enterprises with strict privacy requirements, we offer fully on-premise fine-tuning and deployment. Open-source models (Llama, Mistral, Phi) that run on your infrastructure without sending data to third parties. We optimize inference with vLLM or TGI to serve large models with controlled costs and low latency.

LoRA

Efficient adaptation

On-prem

Total privacy

-90%

Cost vs full training

<100ms

Optimized latency

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Tecnologie

Fine-tuning stack

Hugging Face OpenAI Fine-tuning API Anthropic vLLM TGI LoRA/QLoRA PEFT DeepSpeed Axolotl Weights & Biases Python PyTorch CUDA Docker Llama Mistral Phi NVIDIA A100/H100
Process

From data to custom model in production

A methodical process that ensures data quality, efficient training, and rigorous evaluation before reaching production.

Data preparation

We collect, clean, and format training data. We create instruction/response pairs, validate quality and dataset diversity. This is 70% of the project's success.

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Selection & training

We choose the optimal base model, configure LoRA/QLoRA with appropriate hyperparameters, and train while monitoring loss, overfitting, and quality metrics at each epoch.

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Rigorous evaluation

Benchmark against base model, human evaluation, A/B tests, and edge case validation. We only deploy if fine-tuning significantly outperforms the baseline on your target metrics.

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Optimized deployment

We serve the model with vLLM or TGI for maximum efficiency. Quantization to reduce inference costs. Quality and drift monitoring in production with scheduled retraining.

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FAQ

Domande frequenti about fine-tuning

How much data do I need for fine-tuning?
For classification or specific format tasks, 100-500 high-quality examples are usually sufficient with LoRA. For style adoption or domain content generation, we recommend 500-2000 examples. Quality matters more than quantity: 200 excellent examples outperform 5000 mediocre ones. We help you curate and generate optimal training data.
What is LoRA and why is it important?
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a technique that allows fine-tuning large models by modifying only a small percentage of parameters (typically 0.1-1%). This reduces computational cost by 90%+, enables training on a single GPU, and keeps the model's general capabilities intact. QLoRA adds quantization to further reduce memory requirements.
Can I run the fine-tuned model on my own infrastructure?
Yes. When we use open-source models (Llama, Mistral, Phi), the resulting model is yours and deploys on your infrastructure. With vLLM or TGI you can serve it with low latency and predictable cost. We also offer fine-tuning via OpenAI and Anthropic APIs when you don't need full model control.
How much does LLM fine-tuning cost?
The computational training cost with LoRA is surprisingly low: a typical fine-tuning costs between 10-100 EUR in GPU compute. The main cost is in data preparation and process iteration (our expertise). The recurring inference cost depends on volume: a well-quantized model can serve thousands of requests/hour on a single GPU.
How long does a fine-tuning project take?
A typical project takes 4-8 weeks: 2-3 weeks for data preparation, 1-2 weeks for experimentation and training, and 1-2 weeks for evaluation and deployment. The training itself takes hours, not days. Most time is invested in curating quality data and validating results.
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