LLM Fine-Tuning Expert

Custom LLM Fine-Tuning for Your Domain

Turn open-source language models into domain-specific powerhouses. From data preparation to deployment — I fine-tune LLMs that understand your business.

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12+Model Families
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Likhon - LLM Fine-Tuning Specialist
When to fine-tune vs. use RAG: Fine-tuning is optimal when a model must consistently produce a specific style, format, or domain reasoning that cannot be reliably achieved through prompting. RAG excels for factual, dynamic knowledge retrieval. Research shows LoRA fine-tuning on 1,000–5,000 high-quality examples achieves 92–97% of full fine-tuning quality at less than 5% of the compute cost (Hu et al., 2021, Microsoft Research). This makes parameter-efficient fine-tuning the dominant approach for production LLM customization in 2025.

Fine-Tuning Services

End-to-end LLM customization — from data curation to optimized inference

Data Preparation & Curation

High-quality training data from your documents, conversations, and domain knowledge. Data cleaning, deduplication, and instruction-format conversion.

LoRA & QLoRA Fine-Tuning

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning that delivers 95%+ of full fine-tuning quality at a fraction of the compute cost. Ideal for domain adaptation on a budget.

Instruction Tuning

Train models to follow complex instructions, maintain persona, and produce structured outputs. Multi-turn conversation fine-tuning for chatbot applications.

RLHF & DPO Alignment

Align models with human preferences using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback or Direct Preference Optimization for safer, higher-quality outputs.

Model Optimization

Quantization (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF), distillation, and pruning to reduce model size and latency while maintaining quality. Serve models at 2–4x lower cost.

Deployment & Serving

Deploy fine-tuned models with vLLM, TGI, or Triton. Auto-scaling inference endpoints on GPU clusters, with monitoring and A/B testing.

Supported Model Families

Deep experience across the leading open-source LLM ecosystem

Meta Llama

Latest Llama and Code Llama families. Best general-purpose open model family.

8B / 70B / 405B

Mistral AI

Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B MoE. Excellent quality-to-size ratio.

7B / 8x7B MoE

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V2, DeepSeek Coder. Leading models for code and reasoning.

Coder / Chat

Qwen

Qwen 2.5, Qwen Chat. Strong multilingual and coding capabilities.

7B / 72B

Microsoft Phi

Phi-3, Phi-3.5. Exceptional small models for edge and mobile deployment.

3.8B / 14B

Google Gemma

Gemma 2, CodeGemma. Lightweight models with excellent instruction following.

2B / 9B / 27B

Project Pricing

Transparent pricing for every fine-tuning project size

Starter

Single model, small dataset

$1,500 starting

1–2 week delivery


  • LoRA fine-tuning (≤13B params)
  • Up to 10K training examples
  • Data formatting & cleaning
  • Evaluation benchmarks
  • Model weights delivery
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Enterprise

Multi-model platform

$12,000 starting

6–10 week delivery


  • Multi-task model training
  • RLHF / DPO alignment
  • Continuous training pipeline
  • A/B testing framework
  • Multi-GPU serving cluster
  • 90-day priority support
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Frequently Asked Questions

Fine-tuning is best when you need the model to learn a specific style, format, or domain knowledge that's hard to express in prompts. RAG is better for dynamic, factual knowledge retrieval. Prompt engineering works for straightforward tasks. Often, the best solution combines all three.

Quality matters more than quantity. For LoRA fine-tuning, 1,000–5,000 high-quality examples often produce excellent results. For full fine-tuning, 10,000–50,000+ examples are ideal. I can help create synthetic training data to supplement smaller datasets.

With quantization (4-bit AWQ/GPTQ), a 7B model runs on a single T4 GPU, and a 70B model on 2x A100s. I optimize models to minimize hardware requirements. Cloud deployment on AWS, GCP, or serverless GPU providers (Modal, RunPod) is also an option.

Absolutely. All fine-tuned model weights and training data remain your intellectual property. Models are deployed on your infrastructure or private cloud accounts. I sign NDAs and follow strict data handling protocols.

I use a combination of automated metrics (perplexity, BLEU, ROUGE, exact match) and human evaluation. For instruction-tuned models, I create domain-specific eval sets and run blind A/B comparisons against the base model and competing solutions.

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Let's discuss your use case and find the perfect model and fine-tuning approach for your needs.