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Fine-Tuning Reasoning Models for Domain-Specific Enterprise Contracts

A practical guide to Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) on reasoning LLMs for specialized legal and financial compliance.

Tailoring Deep Reasoning Models to Domain Rules

General-purpose reasoning LLMs are capable of step-by-step logic, but often lack precise understanding of regional regulatory frameworks or internal enterprise schemas.

Training Workflow

  1. Curating 10,000 verified chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning pairs.
  2. Unsloth QLoRA fine-tuning on 4x RTX 4090 GPUs.
  3. DPO preference alignment to penalize speculative hallucination.