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LLM Fine-Tuning

Adapt foundation models to your domain — faster and cheaper.

Pre-trained foundation models are powerful generalists, but production applications demand domain expertise. CogniCloud's fine-tuning infrastructure lets you run LoRA, QLoRA, and full fine-tunes on high-performance GPU clusters with automatic fault tolerance, cost-optimised spot scheduling, and experiment tracking built in.

70%

Cost reduction vs on-demand

60 s

From job submit to first GPU

5 min

Max checkpoint interval

Nodes — no hard cluster ceiling

The Challenge

Why this is hard.

Fine-tuning a 70B-parameter model requires coordinating dozens of GPUs, managing checkpoints across node failures, and tracking hundreds of experiments — all while keeping costs under control. Most teams spend more time fighting infrastructure than improving their model.

How CogniCloud helps

Everything you need, built in.

Spot-first scheduling

Preemptible Spot instances cut training costs by up to 70%. CogniCloud automatically checkpoints every 5 minutes and resumes on a fresh node with zero manual intervention.

LoRA, QLoRA & full fine-tune

Run parameter-efficient LoRA and QLoRA adapters on a single 8× GPU node, or scale to full fine-tunes across 256 GPUs with FSDP. Same API for both.

Fault-tolerant by default

Node failures are a fact at scale. CogniCloud detects, replaces, and re-integrates failed workers automatically. Your training job keeps running — you keep sleeping.

Integrated experiment tracking

Every run is automatically logged with hyperparameters, loss curves, GPU utilisation, and cost-per-token metrics. Compare runs in the dashboard or via the W&B / MLflow integration.

NVLink mesh networking

All nodes connect via InfiniBand HDR 200 Gb/s and NVLink 4.0 with 3.35 TB/s bandwidth. NCCL all-reduce saturates the interconnect — gradient sync is never your bottleneck.

Container-first workflow

Bring your own Dockerfile or choose from optimised base images for PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow. Each image ships with tuned CUDA, cuDNN, NCCL, and Flash Attention.

How it works

From zero to production in three steps.

01

Define your job

Describe your training run in a simple YAML config: model, dataset, hardware shape, and budget. CogniCloud picks the optimal spot strategy.

# cognicloud.yaml
job: fine-tune-llama3-70b
model: meta-llama/Llama-3-70B
dataset: s3://my-bucket/dataset
hardware:
  gpus: 64
  type: high-perf
  strategy: spot
budget:
  max_cost_usd: 800
02

Submit & monitor

Push the config with the CLI. CogniCloud provisions nodes, mounts your data, and streams real-time logs, metrics, and cost to the dashboard.

$ cogni run fine-tune-llama3-70b

✓ Provisioning 8 × GPU nodes...  12s
✓ Mounting dataset volume          4s
✓ Starting distributed training
  Step   42/10000  loss=1.847  tok/s=148k
  Cost so far: $12.40
03

Deploy your adapter

When training converges, publish the LoRA adapter directly to the Inference Gateway with a single command. No weight conversion, no format wrangling.

$ cogni deploy adapter ./checkpoints/step-9800
✓ Adapter uploaded to Neural Cache
✓ Inference endpoint ready

  POST https://api.cognicloud.net/v1/chat
  Model: meta-llama/Llama-3-70B+my-adapter
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