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We present a deep generative model for unsupervised text style transfer that unifies previously proposed non-generative techniques. Our probabilistic approach models non-parallel data from two domains as a partially observed parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Junxian He , Xinyi Wang , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Style transfer aims to rewrite a source text in a different target style while preserving its content. We propose a novel approach to this task that leverages generic resources, and without using any task-specific parallel (source-target)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Huiyuan Lai , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim

Prompting approaches have been recently explored in text style transfer, where a textual prompt is used to query a pretrained language model to generate style-transferred texts word by word in an autoregressive manner. However, such a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Guoqing Luo , Yu Tong Han , Lili Mou , Mauajama Firdaus

We present a general framework for unsupervised text style transfer with deep generative models. The framework models each sentence-label pair in the non-parallel corpus as partially observed from a complete quadruplet which additionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zhongtao Jiang , Yuanzhe Zhang , Yiming Ju , Kang Liu

Text style transfer aims to modify the style of a sentence while keeping its content unchanged. Recent style transfer systems often fail to faithfully preserve the content after changing the style. This paper proposes a structured content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Youzhi Tian , Zhiting Hu , Zhou Yu

Automatic transfer of text between domains has become popular in recent times. One of its aims is to preserve the semantic content of text being translated from source to target domain. However, it does not explicitly maintain other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Devamanyu Hazarika , Min-Yen Kan , Roger Zimmermann , Soujanya Poria

Text style transfer refers to the task of rephrasing a given text in a different style. While various methods have been proposed to advance the state of the art, they often assume the transfer output follows a delta distribution, and thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kevin Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Ming-Ting Sun , Jan Kautz

This paper focuses on style transfer on the basis of non-parallel text. This is an instance of a broad family of problems including machine translation, decipherment, and sentiment modification. The key challenge is to separate the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Tianxiao Shen , Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

We present a novel approach to the problem of text style transfer. Unlike previous approaches requiring style-labeled training data, our method makes use of readily-available unlabeled text by relying on the implicit connection in style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Parker Riley , Noah Constant , Mandy Guo , Girish Kumar , David Uthus , Zarana Parekh

Large-scale noisy web image-text datasets have been proven to be efficient for learning robust vision-language models. However, when transferring them to the task of video retrieval, models still need to be fine-tuned on hand-curated paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nina Shvetsova , Anna Kukleva , Bernt Schiele , Hilde Kuehne

The performance of existing text style transfer models is severely limited by the non-parallel datasets on which the models are trained. In non-parallel datasets, no direct mapping exists between sentences of the source and target style;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Ruibo Liu , Chongyang Gao , Chenyan Jia , Guangxuan Xu , Soroush Vosoughi

Offensive and abusive language is a pressing problem on social media platforms. In this work, we propose a method for transforming offensive comments, statements containing profanity or offensive language, into non-offensive ones. We design…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Minh Tran , Yipeng Zhang , Mohammad Soleymani

Text style transfer aims to alter the style of a sentence while preserving its content. Due to the lack of parallel corpora, most recent work focuses on unsupervised methods and often uses cycle construction to train models. Since cycle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Kangchen Zhu , Zhiliang Tian , Ruifeng Luo , Xiaoguang Mao

Typical methods for unsupervised text style transfer often rely on two key ingredients: 1) seeking the explicit disentanglement of the content and the attributes, and 2) troublesome adversarial learning. In this paper, we show that neither…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Dayiheng Liu , Jie Fu , Yidan Zhang , Chris Pal , Jiancheng Lv

Artistic style transfer is the problem of synthesizing an image with content similar to a given image and style similar to another. Although recent feed-forward neural networks can generate stylized images in real-time, these models produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Golnaz Ghiasi

The goal of text style transfer is to transform the style of texts while preserving their original meaning, often with only a few examples of the target style. Existing style transfer methods generally rely on the few-shot capabilities of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Zachary Horvitz , Ajay Patel , Kanishk Singh , Chris Callison-Burch , Kathleen McKeown , Zhou Yu

Style transfer, a pivotal task in image processing, synthesizes visually compelling images by seamlessly blending realistic content with artistic styles, enabling applications in photo editing and creative design. While mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yingying Deng , Xiangyu He , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Xucheng Yin

Language style transfer is the problem of migrating the content of a source sentence to a target style. In many of its applications, parallel training data are not available and source sentences to be transferred may have arbitrary and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yanpeng Zhao , Wei Bi , Deng Cai , Xiaojiang Liu , Kewei Tu , Shuming Shi

We propose the task of emotion style transfer, which is particularly challenging, as emotions (here: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise) are on the fence between content and style. To understand the particular difficulties of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 David Helbig , Enrica Troiano , Roman Klinger

Text style transfer without parallel data has achieved some practical success. However, in the scenario where less data is available, these methods may yield poor performance. In this paper, we examine domain adaptation for text style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Dianqi Li , Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Chris Brockett , Ming-Ting Sun , Bill Dolan