AutoAdapt: Automatic Domain Discovery Enables Low-Cost Extensibility
2610.10349

Authors

Robert Shanahan,Nikola S. Nikolov,Josh McGiff,Salma Mekaoui

Abstract

Instruction-tuned models are deployed into environments where domains are heterogeneous and evolve, yet adding new domains or data typically requires costly retraining. We present AutoAdapt, a modular framework that incorporates new domains and data via targeted single-adapter training without modifying other adapters.

The framework automatically discovers latent domains, uses them to train per-domain Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters independently in parallel and performs parameter-free routing. Across 14 domain-specific benchmarks and GPT-4o pairwise judgements, AutoAdapt achieves parity with a LoRA adapter trained on all domains without requiring full-model retraining.

We also find evidence of specialisation effect convergence across independent discovery methods. Overall, training each adapter on its own domain prevents domain interference by construction, thus enabling modular, taxonomy-free domain specialisation without aggregate performance loss or full model retraining.

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