Dynamic Prompt Fusion for Multi-Task and Cross-Domain Adaptation in LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18113v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:42:16 GMT
• Title: Dynamic Prompt Fusion for Multi-Task and Cross-Domain Adaptation in LLMs
• Authors: Xin Hu, Yue Kang, Guanzi Yao, Tianze Kang, Mengjie Wang, Heyao Liu,
• Abstract summary: This study introduces a unified multi-task learning framework with dynamic prompt scheduling mechanism.<n>It enhances the model's ability to capture semantic differences across tasks.<n>It incorporates an automatic learning strategy for scheduling weights, which effectively mitigates task interference and negative transfer.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This study addresses the generalization limitations commonly observed in large language models under multi-task and cross-domain settings. Unlike prior methods such as SPoT, which depends on fixed prompt templates, our study introduces a unified multi-task learning framework with dynamic prompt scheduling mechanism. By introducing a prompt pool and a task-aware scheduling strategy, the method dynamically combines and aligns prompts for different tasks. This enhances the model's ability to capture semantic differences across tasks. During prompt fusion, the model uses task embeddings and a gating mechanism to finely control the prompt signals. This ensures alignment between prompt content and task-specific demands. At the same time, it builds flexible sharing pathways across tasks. In addition, the proposed optimization objective centers on joint multi-task learning. It incorporates an automatic learning strategy for scheduling weights, which effectively mitigates task interference and negative transfer. To evaluate the effectiveness of the method, a series of sensitivity experiments were conducted. These experiments examined the impact of prompt temperature parameters and task number variation. The results confirm the advantages of the proposed mechanism in maintaining model stability and enhancing transferability. Experimental findings show that the prompt scheduling method significantly improves performance on a range of language understanding and knowledge reasoning tasks. These results fully demonstrate its applicability and effectiveness in unified multi-task modeling and cross-domain adaptation.

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