mStyleDistance: Multilingual Style Embeddings and their Evaluation
Abstract
Style embeddings are useful for stylistic analysis and style transfer; however, only English style embeddings have been made available. We introduce Multilingual StyleDistance (mStyleDistance), a multilingual style embedding model trained using synthetic data and contrastive learning. We train the model on data from nine languages and create a multilingual STEL-or-Content benchmark (Wegmann et al., 2022) that serves to assess the embeddings' quality. We also employ our embeddings in an authorship verification task involving different languages. Our results show that mStyleDistance embeddings outperform existing models on these multilingual style benchmarks and generalize well to unseen features and languages. We make our model publicly available at https://huggingface.co/StyleDistance/mstyledistance .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.15168,
title = {mStyleDistance: Multilingual Style Embeddings and their Evaluation},
author = {Justin Qiu and Jiacheng Zhu and Ajay Patel and Marianna Apidianaki and Chris Callison-Burch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15168},
year = {2025}
}
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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2410.12757