arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

AutoAdapt: Automatic Domain Discovery Enables Low-Cost Extensibility

AutoAdapt is a modular framework that automatically discovers latent domains and trains per-domain Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters independently in parallel, without modifying other adapters. It uses parameter‑free routing to integrate new domains, achieving performance comparable to a LoRA adapter trained on all domains while avoiding full‑model retraining. The approach prevents domain interference by construction, enabling taxonomy‑free domain specialization across 14 benchmarks and GPT‑4o evaluations.

By Josh McGiff, Salma Mekaoui, Robert Shanahan, Nikola S. Nikolov
arXiv AI
6d ago

Upcycling Language Models for Multiple Specialized Domains

The paper introduces Domain‑Specialized Upcycling (DS‑Upcycling), a method that expands a dense Transformer with domain‑specific experts and a router to improve multi‑domain adaptation. Unlike prior LoRA‑based adapters that either weight all domains equally or activate all experts, DS‑Upcycling trains a domain‑aware router to select the appropriate expert while freezing other parameters. Experiments demonstrate superior average performance across domains and high routing accuracy (90‑98%) with only 256 examples per domain.

By Mingzi Cao, Xi Wang, Nikolaos Aletras
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

HyperRepair: Recovering Forgotten General Capabilities of Fine-Tuned Language Models

HyperRepair is a framework that restores the general capabilities of fine‑tuned language models while keeping their domain specialization, using only inference time. It learns a hypernetwork from repairs on source models, which generates a Repairing Side Net (RSN) that selectively corrects the model based on activation fingerprints. Evaluated on two model families, 12 LoRA adaptation datasets, and 15 general benchmarks, HyperRepair retains 99.5% of fine‑tuned domain performance and 93.4% of the base model’s general performance.

By Junrong Tang, Jianghui Wang, Hao Kong, Yang Lin, Yibo Yang