arXiv AI

AuthorMix: Modular Authorship Style Transfer via Layer-wise Adapter Mixing

AuthorMix is a lightweight, modular framework for authorship style transfer that uses layer‑wise adapter mixing. It trains individual style‑specific LoRA adapters on a small set of high‑resource authors, enabling rapid adaptation to new target styles with only a few examples. The method achieves the highest combined style‑meaning score among baselines, including GPT‑5.1, and improves meaning preservation, as confirmed by human evaluation.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

HyperStyler: Low-resource Authorship Style Transfer via Context-aware Style Navigation and Hypernetworks

HyperStyler is a new architecture for low-resource authorship style transfer that separates style selection from style realization. It uses a style navigator to predict style coordinates from source context and target-author references, and a style hypernetwork to apply these coordinates through dynamic parameter modulation. Experiments on Reddit, Blog, and News datasets show that HyperStyler outperforms previous methods, including LLM-based approaches, while adding only 2.4% more parameters than T5-large and running 1.8× faster at inference.

By Jongkyung Shin, Minguk Jeon, Chanwoo Park, Chiehyeon Lim
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Can Activation Steering Capture Multidimensional Authorship Style?

The paper investigates whether activation steering can capture the complex, multidimensional nature of authorship style. By using structured contrastive prompting along rhetorically motivated dimensions, the authors construct rich style representations directly in activation space, revealing a shared authorship backbone with aspect‑specific residuals. They propose Aspect‑Aware Activation Steering (A3S), a training‑free framework that merges per‑aspect contrastive directions, employs interference‑aware aggregation, and tunes steering strength per instance, achieving better authorship style transfer and outperforming a trained baseline on out‑of‑domain benchmarks.

By Hieu Tran, Calvin Bao, Marine Carpuat
arXiv AI
Jul 1

STEB: Style Text Embedding Benchmark

arXiv:2606. 31741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While semantic embeddings are rigorously evaluated on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark, the evaluation of style embeddings remains fragmented, with each work relying on their own set of tasks and datasets.

By Rafael Rivera Soto, Anna Wegmann, Cristina Aggazzotti
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

Evaluating Style-Personalized Text Generation: Challenges and Directions

The paper "Evaluating Style-Personalized Text Generation: Challenges and Directions" examines the difficulties of assessing text that is tailored to individual users’ styles. It critiques common metrics such as BLEU, embeddings, and LLM-as-judges, and introduces a style discrimination benchmark covering domain discrimination, authorship attribution, and LLM-generated personalized versus non-personalized discrimination across eight writing tasks. The study finds that ensembles of diverse evaluation metrics outperform single-evaluator approaches and offers guidance for reliable assessment of style-personalized generation.

By Anubhav Jangra, Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, Silviu Cucerzan, Adrian de Wynter, Sujay Kumar Jauhar
arXiv AI
Jun 12

Authorship Attribution in Multilingual Machine-Generated Texts

arXiv:2508. 01656v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) have reached human-like fluency and coherence, distinguishing machine-generated text (MGT) from human-written content becomes increasingly difficult.

By Lucio La Cava, Dominik Macko, R\'obert M\'oro, Ivan Srba, Andrea Tagarelli
arXiv AI
Jun 16

StyleShield: Exposing the Fragility of AIGC Detectors through Continuous Controllable Style Transfer

arXiv:2605. 00924v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI-generated content (AIGC) detectors are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings such as academic integrity screening, yet their reliability rests on a fundamental paradox: as language models are trained on human-written corpora, the statistical boundary between AI and human writing will inevitably dissolve as models improve.

By Guantian Zheng