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HSS-Synth: Humanities and Social Sciences Data Synthesis for LLMs

Researchers introduced HSS-Synth, the first data synthesis pipeline for humanities and social sciences, generating 237,000 instruction-tuning samples that outperform 14 leading baselines on 16 benchmarks. The fine-tuned Qwen3-8B-Base model achieved state-of-the-art results, approaching the official Qwen3-8B, with code publicly available on GitHub.

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arXiv:2607.27379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality, diverse data are vital for large language models (LLMs) but remain scarce and costly. Data synthesis is a viable alternative and succeeds on closed tasks, yet the humanities and social sciences (HSS) are overlooked, and their open-ended nature makes synthesis challenging. Moving beyond prior capability-centric, fragmented attempts, we adopt a subject-centric paradigm, define the first HSS domain system covering 14 mainstream fields, and introduce HSS-Synth, the first data synthesis pipeline for HSS. HSS-Synth comprises: (1) constructing seed documents from web corpora via multi-step filtering and text refinement evaluated by a judge; (2) specifying "requirements + persona" to backtranslate seed documents into diverse yet faithful instructions with a strict Q&A alignment check; and (3) breaking LLM response limits via teacher-forced Answering that feeds seed documents during response generation to anchor semantics, reduce hallucinations, and preserve tone and integrity. HSS-Synth yields 237k high-quality, diverse instruction-tuning samples that outperform 14 leading baselines on 16 benchmarks. The fine-tuned Qwen3-8B-Base sets a new SOTA and approaches the official Qwen3-8B, improving both human preference and knowledge capabilities without performance seesaws. Extensive experiments demonstrate HSS-Synth's robustness and transferability. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/pengr/HSS-Synth.

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