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:2608. 19746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized text generation aims to make LLMs write in a specific individual's style, yet existing benchmarks measure task accuracy or preference alignment rather than whether the model's output actually resembles the target author's writing.
By Yash Ganpat Sawant
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.
By Sarubi Thillainathan, Ji-Ung Lee, Michael Sullivan, Alexander Koller
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
Authorship verification (AV) assumes that an author's writing style remains sufficiently stable to distinguish it from that of other writers. In practice, however, this assumption is challenged by dis...
arXiv:2608.23124v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Personalized text generation for authors and literary writing is essential for applications such as adaptive writing assistants, creative support too...
By Jinghui Zhang, Lang Gao, Ao Li, Mingzhe Li, Ruihong Zeng, Zirui Song, Kentaro Inui, Xiuying Chen
Personalized text generation for authors and literary writing is essential for applications such as adaptive writing assistants, creative support tools, and computational literary analysis. However, e...
The paper introduces a style-aware paraphrasing method for text anonymization that leverages pretrained large language models to build compact stylistic profiles from minimal samples and rewrite text to suppress identifiable style markers while preserving meaning. It demonstrates that this approach reduces authorship attribution F1 scores by 60‑70% on blog and review datasets, outperforming both differential privacy‑based and non‑DP baselines, and maintains content quality and readability.
By Ahmed Sohair Khan, Estrid He, Monica Wachowicz, Elham Naghizade
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:2310.00436v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Authorship identification uses patterns in writing to infer who wrote a text, but those patterns also reflect topic, genre, and register. This surv...
By Haining Wang
arXiv:2609.22112v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to generate user-specific text with high stylistic fidelity. However, the personal data that...
By Muhammed Nazmul Arefin, Omar Jamal Hammad
arXiv:2607. 27134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Writing and communication are increasingly mediated by large language models (LLMs) that are being used to draft, revise and polish text.
By Suhas Thejaswi, Juhi Kulshreshta, Lutz Oettershagen