Hands-on: Teaching a local LLM reasoning in new domains via Continued Pretraining with Unsloth
funJS · reddit · 2026-08-21
This post details an experiment using Unsloth to perform Continued Pretraining on the Qwen 3 4B model. The goal was to teach the LLM how to reason about a new domain (a fictional city), demonstrating a practical workflow for injecting specific domain knowledge into local models.
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