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MMA: Cross-Domain Knowledge Integration via Mixture of Multi-Domain Agents

  • Kehang Jia
  • , Juntao Li*
  • , Xiaobo Liang
  • , Yisheng Xiao
  • , Yixuan Yang
  • , Min Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Soochow University

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Abstract

Rather than merely to retain previously acquired generalization, achieving synergistic improvements between generalization and domain specialization in foundation models remains a significant challenge in both pre-training and post-training. As an alternative, we propose a test-time cross-domain knowledge integration method, Mixture of Multi-domain Agents (MMA), which dynamically combines the outputs of general-purpose and domain-specific models to enhance their performance on complex, domain-specific tasks. MMA formulates the integration process as a search problem, using Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to find the path that optimally harmonizes the respective strengths of different models in generalization and domain-specific knowledge. In addition, We design specific action spaces to control the knowledge integration between multiple models, and cross-inspection reward is introduced to fairly score strategies in different domains. Experiments in diverse domains show that MMA can effectively combine the strengths of different models to enhance their performance. For instance, in legal tests, the average performance of all tasks increased from 42.57% to 53.68%. In financial tests, it improved from 56.01% to 62.68%1

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025
EditorsChristos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages13145-13160
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9798891763357
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 4 Nov 20259 Nov 2025

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025

Conference

Conference30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period4/11/259/11/25

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