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Research in the area of style transfer for text is currently bottlenecked by a lack of standard evaluation practices. This paper aims to alleviate this issue by experimentally identifying best practices with a Yelp sentiment dataset. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Remi Mir , Bjarke Felbo , Nick Obradovich , Iyad Rahwan

While the field of style transfer (ST) has been growing rapidly, it has been hampered by a lack of standardized practices for automatic evaluation. In this paper, we evaluate leading ST automatic metrics on the oft-researched task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Eleftheria Briakou , Sweta Agrawal , Joel Tetreault , Marine Carpuat

Existing text style transfer (TST) methods rely on style classifiers to disentangle the text's content and style attributes for text style transfer. While the style classifier plays a critical role in existing TST methods, there is no known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zhiqiang Hu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Charu C. Aggarwal

Style transfer is an important problem in natural language processing (NLP). However, the progress in language style transfer is lagged behind other domains, such as computer vision, mainly because of the lack of parallel data and principle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Zhenxin Fu , Xiaoye Tan , Nanyun Peng , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Back Translation (BT) is widely used in the field of machine translation, as it has been proved effective for enhancing translation quality. However, BT mainly improves the translation of inputs that share a similar style (to be more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Daimeng Wei , Zhanglin Wu , Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Minghan Wang , Jiaxin Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Zhengzhe Yu , Hao Yang

Currently, it is hard to compare and evaluate different style transfer algorithms due to chaotic definitions of style and the absence of agreed objective validation methods in the study of style transfer. In this paper, a novel approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Guanjie Huang , Hongjian He , Xiang Li , Xingchen Li , Ziang Liu

Unsupervised Text Style Transfer (UTST) aims to build a system to transfer the stylistic properties of a given text without parallel text pairs. Compared with text transfer between style polarities, UTST for controllable intensity is more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shuhuan Gu , Wenbiao Tao , Xinchen Ma , Kangkang He , Ye Guo , Xiang Li , Yunshi Lan

Text-based style transfer is a newly-emerging research topic that uses text information instead of style image to guide the transfer process, significantly extending the application scenario of style transfer. However, previous methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Yunpeng Bai , Jiayue Liu , Chao Dong , Chun Yuan

The seminal work of Gatys et al. demonstrated the power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in creating artistic imagery by separating and recombining image content and style. This process of using CNNs to render a content image in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yongcheng Jing , Yezhou Yang , Zunlei Feng , Jingwen Ye , Yizhou Yu , Mingli Song

Numerous recent techniques for text style transfer characterize their approaches as variants of reinforcement learning and preference optimization. In this work, we consider the relationship between these approaches and a class of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuai Liu , Jonathan May

This paper focuses on text detoxification, i.e., automatically converting toxic text into non-toxic text. This task contributes to safer and more respectful online communication and can be considered a Text Style Transfer (TST) task, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Akanksha Bansal , Atul Kr. Ojha , John P. McCrae , Ondřej Dušek

Text style transfer (TST) aims to modify the style of a text without altering its original meaning. Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate superior performance across multiple tasks, including TST. However, in zero-shot setups, they tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Wen Lai , Viktor Hangya , Alexander Fraser

A number of recent machine learning papers work with an automated style transfer for texts and, counter to intuition, demonstrate that there is no consensus formulation of this NLP task. Different researchers propose different algorithms,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Alexey Tikhonov , Ivan P. Yamshchikov

Text-conditioned style transfer enables users to communicate their desired artistic styles through text descriptions, offering a new and expressive means of achieving stylization. In this work, we evaluate the text-conditioned image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Silky Singh , Surgan Jandial , Simra Shahid , Abhinav Java

Style transfer is the task of transferring an attribute of a sentence (e.g., formality) while maintaining its semantic content. The key challenge in style transfer is to strike a balance between the competing goals, one to preserve meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Yulia Tsvetkov , Alan W Black , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Style transfer is a problem of rendering a content image in the style of another style image. A natural and common practical task in applications of style transfer is to adjust the strength of stylization. Algorithm of Gatys et al. (2016)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Victor Kitov

Text style transfer aims to controllably generate text with targeted stylistic changes while maintaining core meaning from the source sentence constant. Many of the existing style transfer benchmarks primarily focus on individual high-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yiwei Lyu , Paul Pu Liang , Hai Pham , Eduard Hovy , Barnabás Póczos , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

This paper proposes a novel method for Text Style Transfer (TST) based on parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs). Addressing the scarcity of parallel corpora that map between styles, the study employs roundtrip…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruoxi Liu , Philipp Koehn

Text-driven style transfer aims to merge the style of a reference image with content described by a text prompt. Recent advancements in text-to-image models have improved the nuance of style transformations, yet significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mingkun Lei , Xue Song , Beier Zhu , Hao Wang , Chi Zhang

Unsupervised Text Style Transfer (UTST) has emerged as a critical task within the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), aiming to transfer one stylistic aspect of a sentence into another style without changing its semantics, syntax,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Lei Pan , Yunshi Lan , Yang Li , Weining Qian