Tutorial: Training a local LLM on a new domain via continued pretraining
funJS · reddit · 2026-08-21
A tutorial demonstrating how to train a local LLM through continued pretraining to learn and reason about a new domain.
The article covers the full workflow, including data preparation, training configuration, and evaluation, helping developers adapt general models to specific vertical domains.
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