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Text style transfer (TST) is the task of transforming a text to reflect a particular style while preserving its original content. Evaluating TST outputs is a multidimensional challenge, requiring the assessment of style transfer accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Atul Kr. Ojha , John P. McCrae , Ondrej Dusek

Conventional text style transfer approaches focus on sentence-level style transfer without considering contextual information, and the style is described with attributes (e.g., formality). When applying style transfer in conversations such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Shamik Roy , Raphael Shu , Nikolaos Pappas , Elman Mansimov , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Dan Roth

With the development of diffusion models, text-guided image style transfer has demonstrated high-quality controllable synthesis results. However, the utilization of text for diverse music style transfer poses significant challenges,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sifei Li , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Chongyang Ma , Weiming dong , Changsheng Xu

An unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system learns to generate speech waveforms corresponding to any written sentence in a language by observing: 1) a collection of untranscribed speech waveforms in that language; 2) a collection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Heting Gao , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Text style transfer techniques are gaining popularity in natural language processing allowing paraphrasing text in the required form: from toxic to neural, from formal to informal, from old to the modern English language, etc. Solving the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nikolay Babakov , David Dale , Ilya Gusev , Irina Krotova , Alexander Panchenko

In recent years, emotional text-to-speech has shown considerable progress. However, it requires a large amount of labeled data, which is not easily accessible. Even if it is possible to acquire an emotional speech dataset, there is still a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Suhee Jo , Younggun Lee , Yookyung Shin , Yeongtae Hwang , Taesu Kim

Recent research on style transfer takes inspiration from unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT), learning from large amounts of non-parallel data by exploiting cycle consistency loss, back-translation, and denoising autoencoders. By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Dana Ruiter , Thomas Kleinbauer , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith , Dietrich Klakow

The artistic style within a painting is the means of expression, which includes not only the painting material, colors, and brushstrokes, but also the high-level attributes including semantic elements, object shapes, etc. Previous arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuxin Zhang , Nisha Huang , Fan Tang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

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

Despite the impressive generative capabilities of diffusion models, existing diffusion model-based style transfer methods require inference-stage optimization (e.g. fine-tuning or textual inversion of style) which is time-consuming, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Jae-Pil Heo

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-to-image diffusion models have recently received increasing interest for their astonishing ability to produce high-fidelity images from solely text inputs. Subsequent research efforts aim to exploit and apply their capabilities to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Manuel Brack , Felix Friedrich , Katharina Kornmeier , Linoy Tsaban , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting , Apolinário Passos

Style transfer is an inventive process designed to create an image that maintains the essence of the original while embracing the visual style of another. Although diffusion models have demonstrated impressive generative power in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Haofan Wang , Peng Xing , Renyuan Huang , Hao Ai , Qixun Wang , Xu Bai

With the rapid development of diffusion models, style transfer has made remarkable progress. However, flexible and localized style editing for scene text remains an unsolved challenge. Although existing scene text editing methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Honghui Yuan , Keiji Yanai

In this paper, we propose a variational approach to unsupervised sentiment analysis. Instead of using ground truth provided by domain experts, we use target-opinion word pairs as a supervision signal. For example, in a document snippet "the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Ziqian Zeng , Wenxuan Zhou , Xin Liu , Zizheng Lin , Yangqin Song , Michael David Kuo , Wan Hang Keith Chiu

Neural style transfer has drawn considerable attention from both academic and industrial field. Although visual effect and efficiency have been significantly improved, existing methods are unable to coordinate spatial distribution of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Yuan Yao , Jianqiang Ren , Xuansong Xie , Weidong Liu , Yong-Jin Liu , Jun Wang

We propose a nonparallel data-driven emotional speech conversion method. It enables the transfer of emotion-related characteristics of a speech signal while preserving the speaker's identity and linguistic content. Most existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jian Gao , Deep Chakraborty , Hamidou Tembine , Olaitan Olaleye

We present a novel iterative, edit-based approach to unsupervised sentence simplification. Our model is guided by a scoring function involving fluency, simplicity, and meaning preservation. Then, we iteratively perform word and phrase-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Dhruv Kumar , Lili Mou , Lukasz Golab , Olga Vechtomova

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

This paper addresses the challenge in long-text style transfer using zero-shot learning of large language models (LLMs), proposing a hierarchical framework that combines sentence-level stylistic adaptation with paragraph-level structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yusen Wu , Xiaotie Deng