ParaGuide: Guided Diffusion Paraphrasers for Plug-and-Play Textual Style Transfer

arXiv:2308.15459v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Textual style transfer is the task of transforming stylistic properties of text while preserving meaning. Target "styles" can be defined in numerous ways, ranging from single attributes (e.g, formality) to authorship (e.g, Shakespeare). Previous unsupervised style-transfer approaches generally rely on significant amounts of labeled data for only a fixed set of styles or require large language models. In contrast, we introduce a novel diffusion-based framework for general-purpose style transfer that can be flexibly adapted to …

abstract arxiv cs.ai cs.cl data diffusion meaning style style transfer text textual transfer type unsupervised