Domain-Specific Data Synthesis for LLMs via Minimal Sufficient Representation Learning

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DOMINO is a novel framework that learns minimal sufficient domain representations from reference examples to synthesize domain-specific data for LLMs, improving code benchmark performance without requiring explicit domain descriptions.

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable progress in general-purpose capabilities and can achieve strong performance in specific domains through fine-tuning on domain-specific data. However, acquiring high-quality data for target domains remains a significant challenge. Existing data synthesis approaches follow a deductive paradigm, heavily relying on explicit domain descriptions expressed in natural language and careful prompt engineering, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where domains are difficult to describe or formally articulate. In this work, we tackle the underexplored problem of domain-specific data synthesis through an inductive paradigm, where the target domain is defined only through a set of reference examples, particularly when domain characteristics are difficult to articulate in natural language. We propose a novel framework, DOMINO, that learns a minimal sufficient domain representation from reference samples and leverages it to guide the generation of domain-aligned synthetic data. DOMINO integrates prompt tuning with a contrastive disentanglement objective to separate domain-level patterns from sample-specific noise, mitigating overfitting while preserving core domain characteristics. Theoretically, we prove that DOMINO expands the support of the synthetic data distribution, ensuring greater diversity. Empirically, on challenging coding benchmarks where domain definitions are implicit, fine-tuning on data synthesized by DOMINO improves Pass@1 accuracy by up to 4.63\% over strong, instruction-tuned backbones, demonstrating its effectiveness and robustness. This work establishes a new paradigm for domain-specific data synthesis, enabling practical and scalable domain adaptation without manual prompt design or natural language domain specifications.
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Abstract

DOMINO enables domain-specific data synthesis through an inductive approach that learns domain representations from reference examples, improving code benchmark performance without requiring explicit domain descriptions.

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable progress in general-purpose capabilities and can achieve strong performance in specific domains through fine-tuning on domain-specific data. However, acquiring high-quality data for target domains remains a significant challenge. Existing data synthesis approaches follow a deductive paradigm, heavily relying on explicit domain descriptions expressed in natural language and careful prompt engineering, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where domains are difficult to describe or formally articulate. In this work, we tackle the underexplored problem ofdomain-specific data synthesisthrough aninductive paradigm, where the target domain is defined only through a set ofreference examples, particularly when domain characteristics are difficult to articulate in natural language. We propose a novel framework, DOMINO, that learns a minimal sufficient domain representation from reference samples and leverages it to guide the generation of domain-aligned synthetic data. DOMINO integratesprompt tuningwith acontrastive disentanglement objectiveto separatedomain-level patternsfromsample-specific noise, mitigatingoverfittingwhile preserving core domain characteristics. Theoretically, we prove that DOMINO expands the support of thesynthetic data distribution, ensuring greater diversity. Empirically, on challenging coding benchmarks where domain definitions are implicit, fine-tuning on data synthesized by DOMINO improvesPass@1 accuracyby up to 4.63\% over strong,instruction-tuned backbones, demonstrating its effectiveness and robustness. This work establishes a new paradigm fordomain-specific data synthesis, enabling practical and scalabledomain adaptationwithout manual prompt design or natural language domain specifications.

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