DoMIX: An Efficient Framework for Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Fine-Tuning

Dohoon Kim, Donghun Kang, Taesup Moon


Abstract
Domain-Adaptive Pre-training (DAP) has recently gained attention for its effectiveness in fine-tuning pre-trained models. Building on this, continual DAP has been explored to develop pre-trained models capable of incrementally incorporating different domain datasets. However, existing continual DAP methods face several limitations: (1) high computational cost and GPU memory usage during training; (2) sensitivity to incremental data order; and (3) providing a single, generalized model for all end tasks, which contradicts the essence of DAP. In this paper, we propose DoMIX, a novel approach that addresses these challenges by leveraging LoRA modules, a representative parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method. Our approach enables efficient and parallel domain-adaptive pre-training that is robust to domain order and effectively utilizes accumulated knowledge to provide tailored pre-trained models for specific tasks.We also demonstrate that our method can be extended beyond the DAP setting to standard LLM fine-tuning scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/dohoonkim-ai/DoMIX.
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2025.acl-long.710
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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Dohoon Kim, Donghun Kang, and Taesup Moon. 2025. DoMIX: An Efficient Framework for Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Fine-Tuning. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 14581–14602, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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