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From Production Traffic to Post-Training: Building a Self-Hosted LLM That Covers the Corporate Request Mix

Olga Tsymboi, Dmitrii Stoianov, Ramil Latypov, Danil Taranets, Daniil Dryabin, Mikhail Gashkov, Viktor Zelenkovskiy, Aleksandr Fida, Gleb Alektorov, Nikita Gulyakov, Arthur Babkin, Aleksandr Medvedev, Pavel Gein, Anatolii Potapov

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Published 2026-09-01 · First seen 2026-09-03

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Data-residency constraints force enterprises to self-host LLMs, but continuous adoption of newer models without decommissioning their predecessors expands the serving fleet, fragmenting a finite GPU pool. We consolidate traffic from over 200 internal applications onto a single model by closing quality gaps identified through production error analysis along three axes: instruction following, function-calling, and internal task distribution. Quality is tracked by offline benchmarks stratified to production traffic and scored by deterministic verifiers or calibrated LLM judges. Rather than optimising all objectives jointly, which introduces cross-domain reward interference, we train a separate GRPO expert per axis and merge them via two-stage SLERP. Each expert's reward exposes a distinct failure mode, namely semantic collapse, over-calling, and verbosity hacking, each requiring a domain-specific fix. In non-reasoning mode the recipe surpasses a ${\sim}7\times$ larger by total parameters baseline on the in-house Arena with 69.6 to 65.8, instruction following with 0.85 to 0.83, and function-calling with 0.79 to 0.77, while lifting general dialogue benchmarks. The model absorbs 50% of platform traffic, 116M requests per month, at a fraction of the serving cost.

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@article{tsymboi2026production,
  title = {From Production Traffic to Post-Training: Building a Self-Hosted LLM That Covers the Corporate Request Mix},
  author = {Olga Tsymboi and Dmitrii Stoianov and Ramil Latypov and Danil Taranets and Daniil Dryabin and Mikhail Gashkov and Viktor Zelenkovskiy and Aleksandr Fida and Gleb Alektorov and Nikita Gulyakov and Arthur Babkin and Aleksandr Medvedev and Pavel Gein and Anatolii Potapov},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Data-residency constraints force enterprises to self-host LLMs, but continuous adoption of newer models without decommissioning their predecessors expands the serving fleet, fragmenting a finite GPU pool. We consolidate traffic from over 200 internal applications onto a single model by closing quality gaps identified through production error analysis along three axes: instruction following, function-calling, and internal task distribution. Quality is tracked by offline benchmarks stratified to p},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01572},
  keywords = {cs.CL},
  eprint = {2609.01572},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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