diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3e657b8..0a51b63 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -27,10 +27,7 @@ coverage.xml
 .ipynb_checkpoints/
 *.ipynb_checkpoints
 
-# Model checkpoints (large binaries — commit only intentionally)
-checkpoints/*.pt
-checkpoints/*.pth
-checkpoints/*.ckpt
+# Model checkpoints tracked via Git LFS (see .gitattributes)
 
 # Processed data (reproducible from source)
 data/processed/
diff --git a/checkpoints/finetuned.pt b/checkpoints/finetuned.pt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e19268e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checkpoints/finetuned.pt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:84d48031b707b029312f4af98590f9ccd81a003f234815222c50b3ce2273c70a
+size 16998283
diff --git a/checkpoints/pretrained.pt b/checkpoints/pretrained.pt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7917151
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checkpoints/pretrained.pt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:864a1d827767e2b6a95408b44096c0f8779048ea65a295d1db1445d94ae8a423
+size 17000113